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By David Brewerton and

Geoffrey Poster

The biggest shake-out in the City
since Big Bang two years ago was
confirmed yesterday when Morgan
Grenfell, the bank, dosed its
trading operations in states and
gilt-edged securities.

About 450 people are to lose
their Jobs, after reading in the
morning newspapers that the
securities business was being axed.

M organ Grenfell las spent £60

Mr John Craven: More than
two months' consideration.

ing its market-making activities,
but has decided that after tflafag
£13 million on shares in tbe past
five months it would shut up shop.

Also facing closure is the gilt-
edged market-m aking operations,
which have lost £4.5 milnon in the
past 11 months.

The losses follow a price war

among leading City securities
booses started by die American-
owned Citicorp Scrimgeour Vic¬
kers, which has left afl of them
feeing losses in the past three
months.

Morgan Grenfell is still working
out redundancy terms for the staff
involved. The decision to close the
two key elements of Morgan
Grenfell Securities took most of its
dealers by surprise.

It was the morning after the
Christmas party and only a few
weeks after Mr John Craven, the
group chief executive, had declared
that the bank was strongly oft mnyt -

ted to building up its securities side

despite the losses.

However, Mr Craven told The
Times yesterday that the board had
been considering tbe closure for
more than two months. Many
dealers heard of their fete through

rumours in the press; some were
told by colleagues on the train to
work; some were rung by dealers
from other-firms.

As they stopped dealing, other
market-makers started baying,
sending the Morgan Grenfell share

£22m loss-23

Dealers* worry 23

price up immediately by 12 p. Rival
dealers realized that 450job losses
meant a leaner, fitter Morgan
GrenfelL

To add to the outrage felt by
staff) a number of people in the
City had been approached to join
the bank’s dealing operations as
recently as two weeks ago, with
generous “goidenhdJos” on offer.

Morgan Grenfell is asking a few
staff to stay to organize the clearing

up operation and deal with clients
and to form tbe nucleus of a small
research-based operation. Mr Cra¬
ven warned: “It is not in anyone’s
interest to resign, because that
would immediately disqualify
them for redundancy payments.”

He promised that everyone who
is made redundant will be told of
tbe terms by letter within the next
48 hours.

He has lined up 40 “outplace¬
ment officers” to counsel staff For -
the 450 who are out, redundancy
terms have been costed at £10
million. Salaries of staff to go range
from back-office workers earning
less than £ 20,000 to senior exec¬
utives earning up to £250,000. On¬
screen dealers earn in a range from
£35,000 to £100.000, depending on
bonuses.

Staff were “advised” to take one
or two days off while their redun¬

dancy packages were being worked
out. Mr Craven denied, however,
that they had been locked out of
the budding.

But because of fears that a
disgruntled member of staff could
plant a “virus” in the computer,
those who had been working ou tbe
information technology side were
being accompanied by security
personel when on the premises.

Full details of the closedown
plans were available for all to see
on the Stock Exchange Topic
screens by 11 am, by which time
press and television cameras were
gathering in the street outside —
and the bars were open. Drowning
their sorrows in tbe Pavilion, the
Scottish Pound and various drink¬
ing holes within a stone’s throw of
Finsbury Circus in the City of
London, market-makers young

and old were scathing in their

criticism of the management’s
handling of the shock redundancy
news. One younger equity dealer,
faced the daunting task of tele¬
phoning his wife with the news of a
surprise Christinas lump-sum, but
tbe prospect of tbe dole quote in
tbe New Year stated: “The
management are gutless. Last year
they sacked people the morning
after the Christmas party and this
year they let their loyal staff find
out the worst by other means. I was*
told by a friend who worts for a
rival securities firm on the train
this morning. 1 took it with a pinch
of salt and laughed it off, but 1 feel
livid now.”

Almost to a man, the Morgan
Grenfell men admitted that they
were not told by the management
until after they had read about it in
the morning papers and after the)'
Continued on page 22 col 1

Shipbuilders
to close with
2,000 jobs lost

Retraining package to
soften blow for workers

The shepherd prince at play Kinnock loses

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two key aides
in terror revolt

By Philip Webster, Chief Political Correspondent

The Government will announcing a package of mea-. One of the potential buyers
announce today that s ? res to help the workers find represented overseas interests
North East Shipbuilders ^ and another involved oywh-

is tn rlivse with the- Ins* " 5da “ 1 foe land rnadte dere- ations and individuals
i “ l0SS hcL It .will include help with brought together by Mr Bob

or Auuu joos. relocation and retraining and clay. Labour MP for Sunder-

Tne closure of the be designed to mitigate the Jand North. Tbe extra time
Sunderland;based subsid- impact on the local economy, was also seen as valuable for
iary of British Shipbuild- The Treasury and the prospective buyers to learn the
ers comes after months of Department of the Environ- outcome of negotiations be-,
uncertainty arid a final meat he ld talks with. the tween NESL and Mambisa, i
nttp-mx* faimrhod Department of Trade and the Cuban state shipping coin¬

reclaim the land made dere- ations and individuals
lid. It will indude help with brought together by Mr Bob
relocation and retraining and clay. Labour MP for Sunder-
be designed to mitigate the u>nA North. The extra tiiw*
impact on the local economy, was also seen as valuable for
The Treasury and the prospective buyers to learn the

uncertainty and a final
attempt, launched three
weeks ago, to find a
purchaser.

Up to 4,000 jobs in asso¬
ciated industries are also at
risk. .

Department or Trade and- the Cuban state shipping com-
Ihdustry on the closure pro- pany which was considering
posals as hopes of finding a placing an order worth £120 !
buyer faded ag a in du ri ng the million, but it has now been I

past two weeks.

The closure, to be an¬
nounced in tbe Commons

decided that none of the po-
an- tentiaf buyers are acceptable.
ons NESL was for sale as part of i

The Government is ^^dnvbv Mr Tonv Newtom was tor sale as part or

peered to soften the blow by ^“VSster fo?TtaSSd Ggveram^t’s pfen to

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Accumulator rises to
£40,000 today.

Prices: page 29

INSIDE

Thatcher
‘rebuke’
for Currie

Mrs Margaret Thatcher deliv¬
ered an implied rebuke to Mrs
Edwina Currie, Under Sec¬
retary of State for Health, over
her remarks on egg con¬
tamination, yesterday when
she distanced herself from
Mrs Currie’s remarks.

The Prime Minister in¬
formed the Commons that she
had enjoyed scrambled eggs,
immediately after reading two
reports by tbe chief medical
officer_ 22

IMF warning

Higher interest rates could
have a serious effect on the
economies of industrialized
nations, despite higher growth
forecasts, the International
Monetary Fund said.. Page 23

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Solidarity, thebumed trade J? ^

ration, at the Gdansk ship- SSSjS ** * tar of
vartL privatization .

J um—T he bids are understood to

spokesman said

yard.

However, the Government
emphasized that it was stiff
seeking information about
possible buyers for the yard.
On November 14 Mr Newton
told the Commons that none
of the previous four bids bad
proved acceptable, but, in a
last-minute reprieve, be said
that three further expressions
of interest were to be explored
in a “last effort".

Mr Newton, who was

have been ruled out becanse
they either involve unaccept¬
able conditions or too great a,
subsidy to be acceptable under
the rules of the European
Community. The state-owned
shipbuilding sector has cost
the taxpayer some £2 billion
since 1979.

Shipbuilding on Weaxside
stretches back to the four¬
teenth-century and once em-

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known to be reluctant 10 close ployed 20,000 people. Tbe
the yard if an alternative could people of Sunderland have
he found, has been anxious fought a long campaign

be found, has been anxious
not to raise false hopes. He

fought a long campaign
against closure, with posters in

Prince Henry, right, taking a classmate in hand yesterday during rehearsals for the nativity
play atJaneMynors School, Noting HIB, London. The Prince, aged four, plays a shepherd.

‘Multi-million pound 9 claims
to follow radiation reports

therefore set a deadline for the shop windows and a 100,000

end of November.

name petition.

Water cost ‘to leap
ahead of sell-off

By Thomson Prentice, Science Correspondent

Compensation Haims on be- authority would “seek swift will be strenuously resisted.”
half of more than 70 cancer settlements and early interim Lawyers from 21 local legal
d ac- payments where there is no firms are filing claims on
f radi- dispute on liability”. behalf of patients. The two

By Richard Ford, Political Correspondent

Water cha
more than

; are to rise by
rate of inflation

chartered accountants repre¬
senting the Water Companies'

next year and the 28 existing association, on the eve of the

water companies are being second reading of tbe Wafer
advised to use a “one off” Privatization Bill-
opportunity to maxim ize . The also advises the
charges before privatization, 3 —,^ “not to suggest
according to a leaked letter ^ privatization as such
obtained by the Labour party, n,.,^ these tariff increases
An independent consultant necessary”.

patients who received ac- payments where there is no
oriental overdoses of radi- dispute on liability”.

“*“5* °L V 0 ?J^ Mr French aid the payouts

Exeter Hospital are being could run into millions and

m.WfLffoi 6 nf authority was not insured-

He said it was “willing and
official reports into the a mi r. to wytim interim pay-

The cost of the claims is merits to . those “who can
likely to total many millions prove they have been dam
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A total of 207 patients Report . .

received up to 25 per centtoo L ead in g article — ........15

much radiation between Feb- —— "■ -

ruary and July this year. ; aged^and that they have a

Seventy-eight of them have eeed*'.

dispute on liability”. behalf of patients. The two

Mr French said the payouts ind^endent instigations
could ran into millions and estabasbed **“* ^ r ° < 2 cai 5 e
the authority was not insured. was
He said ft was “willing and \“ r
eager” to make interim pay- "W® detenmning foe out-

Leading article.

put of radiation from a
machine. Mr Stuart Cook and
his head, of department. Dr
Scott Bowring; woe dismissed
in July but are understood to
be appealing that decision.

Seventy-eight of them have
since died from their Alness
rather than from the effects,
but almost 50 others are at

ageci ana mat tney nave a The two reports are strongly

neeti • critical of medical and man-

That brought an angry re- agenal staff at the hospital and
action from a solicitor, Mr contain 27 recommendations.

advising Labour on wafer
privatization said charges

INDEX

Home News.
Overseas
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cent above foe rale of ^ces will serve as foe basis
inflation. fo r the charges foe Govem-

Labour produced the letter merit will regulate after
from Ernst and Whinney, the Condoned on page 22, col 7

bill almost 50 others are at Chris Over, who soo-ortiinat- accepted by the authority. One
high risk of serious or severe; ^ ^ H*img 0 f 76 patients, report was by Professor
side effects, some of winch “These people have suffered Charles Joslin head of radiot-
could be life-threatening, ac- enough without having to ogy at Leeds University. The
cording to findings in the show financial need,” he said, other was by a committee
reports. “Need is not a Legal require- headed by Professor Sir Bryan

The Hiainwan of Exeter ment for interim awards and Thwaites, foe former chair-

| reports.

The- chairman of Exeter
Jfealfo Authority, Mr Murray
j French, said yesterday foe

any attempt to justify pay- man of Wessex Health
mention the grounds of need Authority.

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I Manhattan last night braced itself for
x traffic havoc as President Gorbachov
c flew in for a working trip that has
assumed foe trappings of a royal
progress and raised anxiety among
American officials that they may be
about to be outmanoeuvred by tin:
Kremlin leader.

, Expectations could hardly have been
raise d higher for such a hastily arranged
trip, which Mr Gorbachov is mak in g
ostensibly to address tbe United Nations
and to ray goodbye to President Reagan,
'j while the White House nervously
v awaited foe much-herakied surprise that
/ Mr Gorbachov is expected to unveil
T today. New York’s raucous local press
j gave in to a bom of “CtorbyrnamE” and

joyous speculation about foe c h a n ce s of
a new tiff between foe “feuding first
ladies”.

Mm Raisa Gorbachov is doe to attend
a lunch along with Mrs Nancy Reagan
today at the home of Senora Marcela
P&rez de Cuellar, the wife of the UN
Secretary-GeneraL Since the last frosty
sessions in Washington and Moscow,
Mrs Reagan has gone public with her
obvious tick of affection for Mis
Gorbachov, telling tbe Los Angeles
Times six weeks ago foat she found her
very rude.

To the dismay of foe American
security team and tbe chief of foe 7,000
police officers detached for the visit, foe
Russians have still revealed no full
itinerary for the three-day stay. Tbe
poiioe are dreading foe possibility that a

whim could send the 45-car “Gorb-
ocadc” careering down Manhattan can¬
yons, sending the island into a condition
of “terminal gridlock". He is expected to
make stops at such traditional tourist
sites as the Metropolitan Museum,
Central Park and foe World Trade
Centre.

While Mr Reagan is apparently happy
to see his “friendly opponent” fora fifth
and final get-together, Mr Bush is quietly
simmering over whai his team sees as an
attempt by Mr Gorbachov to take his
measure before he assumes power. Dr
Henry Kissinger has been pubhdy
ur ging Mr Bush tn tell Mr Gorbachov he
will accept no summit meetings unless
be reveals bis ideas in advance. “It’s a
terrible procedure to have a head of
Continued on page 22, col 5

By Philip Webster and Richard Ford

Mr Neil Kinnock faced an
internal Labour Party revolt
last night over his handling of
the terrorism issue.

Two Labour frontbenchers
resigned over Mr Kinnock’s
instructions to his MPs to ab¬
stain in foe vote last night on
the second reading of foe Biff
renewing anti-terrorist laws.
About 40 MPs were expected
to defy the order.

Miss Clare Short, a front-
bench employment spokes¬
man, resigned before the vote
with a sharply-worded attack
on Mr Kinnock’s leadership.

In a letter. Miss Short said
she was not willing to be
“threatened or bullied” and
appealed to Mr Kinnock to
reconsider the way be man¬
aged the party. “Constant
threats and denunciations
simply reinforce the image of
a divided and bickering
party ” she said.

Mr Kinnock, who earlier
had what Miss Short called a
“very friendly” meeting with
her, denied her accusation,
saying that neither she nor any
MP had bfen bulbed.

The other frontbencher to
resign was Mr Andrew Ben¬
nett. the higher education
spokesman, Who said abstain¬
ing against foe Biff would be
taking foe easy way out.

Another frontbencher was
dissuaded from resigning after
talks with Mr Kinnock. Mr
Clive Soley, the party’s hous¬
ing spokesman, was reported
Iasi week to be also unhappy
about the decision, although
he had agreed to toe the line.

Earlier, foe Prime Minister
and Mr Douglas Hurd, Home
Secretary, called on the Lab¬
our Party to return to a
bipartisan stance

The Labour dispute arose
over the Shadow Cabinet’s
instruction to MPs to abstain

on the second reading of the
Bill In recent years, it has op¬
posed the measure but its tac¬
tics this year are dictated by
the Bill’s provision to seize te¬
rrorist funds, which it sup¬
ports. However, it remains op¬
posed to foe Bill’s central pow¬
ers of arrest and detention.

To accommodate Labour
opposition to those powers,
foe Shadow Cabinet tabled an
amendment for last night’s
debate emphasizing its oppo¬
sition to the detention powers.

Mir Kinnock, in his letter to
Mr Bennett, defended the
strategy which he said enabled

Parliament.. 11

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Labour to uphold civil rights
while supporting the powers
to confiscate terrorist foods.

Mr Kinnock said he could
not agree that it was “the easy
way out”. He said: “I do not
take easy ways and I would
not recommend such a course
to the shadow cabinet or tbe
PLP on such ‘ fundamental
issues as civil rights”.

Mrs Margaret Thatcher said
at Question Time that people
would only believe that every*
one was serious about fighting
terrori sm when Labour joined
foe Tories in voting for foe
prevention of terrorism Bill.

Mr Douglas Hurd, foe
Home Secretary, moving foe
second reading of foe Blli,
said, “it would be a great
strength to this country if we
were able to proceed with
general agreement”.

He said those who opposed
foe provisions had not
thought through the nature of
terrorism, its techniques and
foe means which society
needed to prevent the spilling
of blood or dealing effectively
with those who spilt it

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- Haughey hope

r on terror trials

cam Mr Charles Haughey, the Irish Prime Minister, again

Guil emphasized his hope yesterday that the British Government

the i would allow suspected IRA terrorists to be brought to trial in

shah courts in the Republic for offences committed in Britain,

onei He told Irish MP$ dining a debate on the renewal of

senit safeguards on the extradition arrangements with Britain that

has i “extradition is not the only means available for dealing with

whic fugitive offenders". It is the second time in two days that Mr

the Haughey has urged the Government to make greater use of

wrol Irish extra-territorial legislation which would allow IRA

whic suspects to be charged and prosecuted in the Republic,

been Mr Haughey also rejected British claims that extradition

Es . arrangements between the two countries are not working,

guisl He said that the safeguards objected to by Britain were not

McC proving an obstacle to extradition in legitimate cases. Last

Bar night, the Dai! was expected to put the safeguards on a

“vas permanent basis.

E Cheap Christmas calls

justi Telephone calls throughout England, Wales and Northern

rem< Ireland will be charged at a low rate all day for four days

T! from Christmas Eve and for three days from New Year’s

pnst Eve. But for Scottish callers, the rate vriQ apply from the

—“ evening of December 22 until the morning of January 4. The

rates will also apply to most international calls.

= Collieries seek review

Miners at two South Wales pits yesterday voted to use
British Coal's new review procedure to appeal against their
p ort closure. The men at Marine colliery in Ebbw Vale, Gwent,

and Cynheidre colliery, near Ammanford, Dyfed, will be the
first miners in South Wales to use the review. At Marine the
cion men voted by 360-204 to fight closure while at Cynheidre

and the voting was 373-185 to go to appeal. Both lodges claim

[Spc there are sufficient reserves for the pits to be viable provided

An e there is fresh investment British Coal says heavy losses

“for caused by geological difficulties cannot continue.

E Student guild dispute

Conservative students at Exeter University were suspended
of a last night by the Labour-controlled students’ union, the

(SI ! Guild of Students, after claims that they were compiling

i°g t dossiers on members of the guild executive. Miss Amanda

seco Barr, of Exeter University Conservative Assocation, said:

ae £n “We have not compiled any dossiers, nor do we intend to.

ana; The accusations may be linked with the activities of other

Anti organizations which are quite separate from the Conser¬
ve vative association.” The guild council was meeting last ni g ht

Cou to set up a tribunal to investigate the claims,

and

m New car sales record

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Riel New car sales in the UK have broken afl annual records with

R still a month of the year to run. The Society of Motor

Rf& Manufacturers and Traders said a record November sent

total 1988 sales through the two million marie. December’s
g n ! figures should push the full-year total past 22 million. The

i„p newly-launched Vauxhall Cavalier again had a good month,

i4(ii pushing the Ford Fiesta out of the top three in the best

“/ sellers’ list But British cars generally did less well — with

the : imported cars taking a 57.52 per cent share of the market

Jjj 1 compared with a 52.76 per cent share in November 1987.

Carol case is closed

Police said yesterday they would not be seeking anyone else
in connection with the murder of the schoolgirl, Carol
the Baldwin. A girl aged 13 was last week acquitted of the

johi murder after a 12-day trial at Northampton Crown Court.

Li Carol, aged 13, was stabbed to death in a park dose to her

Mr home in Northampton, last March.

Rifkind launches drive for Scots jobs

By Nicholas Wood and Kerry Gill

Proposals aimed at banishing the
I spectre of high unemployment and
making the Scottish economy one of
the strongest in Eiuojpe were unveiled
by Mr Malcolm Rifkind, the Secretary
of State for Scotland, yesterday.

Launching a White Paper, Mr
Rifkind announced a shake-up of
existing training and inHiif trai sup¬
port in the country, with a prescrip¬
tion of decentralization based on the
ideas of Mr Bill Hughes, chairman of
the Scottish CHI, aimed at meeting
the European free-trade challenge of
1992 and tackling the serious skill
shortages expected m the next decade.

A new body, Scottish Enterprise,
with a budget of nearly £500 million a
year, is to be set up. It will incorporate
the Scottish Development Agency,

which «naVft$ finance and sites avail¬
able to firms, and the Training
Agency, the Whitehall body respon¬
sible for programmes such as the
Youth Training Scheme and Employ¬
ment Training.

Mr Rifkind said the reorganization
was perhaps the single most im¬
portant government announcement
on matters affecting the Scottish
economy since the Conservatives
came to power in 1979.

He said: “A radical feature of our
proposals is in the creation of a
comprehensive network of employer-
led local agencies.. .they will allow
local employers and others a much
greater say in the delivery of services
in their areas for training and enter¬
prise creation. The opportunity is
there to forge strong partnerships at
local level and provide a powerful

focus for effecting local change." He
said that, while the delivery of
training was being privatized, funding
would remain the duty of the state for
the foreseeable future.

On training, the changes dosely
parallel those announced for England
and Wales by Mr Norman Fowler, the
Secretary of State for Employment.
The difference is that Scotland will
retain a government-funded dev¬
elopment body, which led Mr Rifkind
to describe his formula as a "Scottish
solution to meet Scottish needs".

About 22 focal agencies are to be set
up to respond directly to local needs.
Two thirds of their boards wifi be
drawn from yninr company manage¬
ment with the remaining places being
filled, among others, by trade union¬
ists, representatives of enterprise
trusts aid colleges.

The local agencies will have three-
year contracts with Scottish Enter¬
prise and their functions will include
analysing the labour market, devising
training and business schemes, busi¬
ness support, and encouraging local
employers to bear an increasing share
of the cost of training.

The White Paper envisages that
Scottish Enterprise, ultimately re¬
sponsible to the Secretary of State.,
will have a board of 10 members, of {
which at least six will have a business ;
or industrial background. The essen¬
tial changes will require legislation,
which is not intended until the next
session of Parliament beginning in the
autumn of 1989. The proposals will
now go out for public consultation,
with a dosing date for responses of
March 31 next year.

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Mackay in
first steps
towards a
‘family court’

By Sheila Gunn, Ptditkml Staff

Nurses lobby the Commons

Lord Mackay of Qasbfem,
Lord Chancellor, yesterday
announced key reforms to the
handling of COOZt cases
involving children, effectively
ushering in family courts.

His target is to remove the
criminal stigma overshadow¬
ing court cases involving
children, to speed up the
hearings and to make sure
they are dealt with by those
s teeped in family law.

Lord Mackay is adopting a
cautious step-by-step ap¬
proach to reforming family
litigation which, he said,
should satisfy those who have
been campaigning for so long
for the introduction of family
courts.

He said: “The Government
is determined that all litiga¬
tion concerning the family
should be arranged to ensure
that the best results are
achieved within the available
resources”.

When moving the second
reading of the Children Bill in
the Lords yesterday the Lord
Chancellor said amendments
will be tabled to the Bill to
transfer applications for child¬
ren to be taken into care from
the magistrate^ to domestic

courts. Changes win also be
made to the legislation to give
rights of appal to the High
COurt In care and supervision
cases to emphasize their cml
nature.

When the Bffi becomes law
next year the new powers win
only initially affect local au¬
thority care cases and adop¬
tion proceedings. But Lord
Mackay promised that the
powers win be wide enough
eventually to cover all chil¬
dren's cases.

Lord Mackay said: “In
reforming the law relating to
children it also provides for
the redesign of the court
arrangements and procedures
to meet the needs of children’s
cases.

“The major improvements
winch the Bill will achieve in
the substantive law, procedure
and jurisdiction take us a long
way to achieving the general
approach to all family litiga¬
tion sought by those who have
been calling for a family
court", be added.

“The Government will not
stop here however and the
way forward is signalled by
thisBilL w

Parliament, page 11 ;

Mrs Jan Hammings, a midwife from Plymouth, with her
dxaghter Zoe, six mouths, daring the protest yesterday.

By JB1 Sherman
Social Services
Correspondent
Hundreds of nurses lobbied
MPs at tire Houses of Par¬
liament yesterday in an at¬
tempt to reopen talks on tire
nurses’ grading dispute.

Members of tire Confedera¬
tion of Health Service Emplo¬
yees (Cobse), tire National
Union of Public Employees
(Nope), tire Royal College of
Mid wires and the Health
Visitors’Association called on
MPs to press for arbitration

The Royal College of Nurs¬
ing (RCN) putted out of the
lobby last month after a week
of deteriorathig relations with
the more militant nimring

rniimnc.

Mr Hector MacKcnzte, gen- ,
end secretary of Cohse and
chairman of the staff-Sute DO- !
goffering council, said tire |
RCN gave no satisfactory rea¬
son for withdrawing. He said
the RCN meeting yesterday
with Mr Kenneth Clarke,
Secretary of State for Health,
gained nothing.

The protest came as health
authorities began sifting ont
Hi-founded or mistaken grad¬
ing appeals among the 50,000
waiting to be heard. Mr
Clarke said in a letter to tire 14
regional chairmen on Monday
that most appeals would either

foO or be withdrawn.

The Prime Minister told the |
Commons she was delighted
many nurses appeared to be ■
leaving the more militant
unions to join the RCN.

• Mr Duncan Nichol, general
manager of tire Mersey health
region, will take orer as chief
executive of the NHS manage¬
ment board from Mr Len
Peach, who is returning to
IBM after three years.

Satellite

ITVmay

‘mean

chaos’

By Richard Evans
Media Editor

Independent television's plans
to broadcast from space if it
loses out in the Government’s
highest-bid-wins plan for fran¬
chises “will throw corrunerical
television into chaos”, Lab¬
our's broadcasting spokesman
said lost night.

However. Mr Robin Cor¬
bett. Labour MP for Birming¬
ham. Erdington, said he
understood why companies
such as Thames and LWT
were considering the option of
satellite TV given tire lunacy
of “the price is right" pro¬
posals included in the
broadcasting White Paper.

“This is going to throw
commercial TV into chaos
and foe Government will get
everything it is asking for.
Sadly the viewer will lose out
because it will restrict access
for millions of people who
can't afford subscription to
watch some of their favourite
programmes."

Mr 0x1x11*8 remarks came
as Central Television, rec¬
ognized by Downing Street as
one of the most tar-sigh ted
independent television com¬
panies, disclosed it was also
considering broadcasting from
space if it loses its franchise.

Under government plans,
independent television fran¬
chises will be awarded to
applicants who submit the
highest bid, after passing a
programme “quality test”.

Thames TV has already
provisionally booked a
transponder on foe second 16-
channel Astra satellite due to
be launched in 1991..

• Sky Television is ex¬
pected to have a sixth channel
on foe Astra satellite being
launched from Kourou in
French Guiana this Friday.

The new channel, due to be
announced later this week,
will probably carry arts pro¬
grammes and classic films.

Mr Rupert Murdoch has
already announced plans for ■
five other Sky channels, which
will be available via satellite in
Britain ou February 20.

Sky News, foe round-the-
clock satellite TV news service
starting in February, will fea¬
ture Selina Scott, the former
BBC presenter, and Bob
Friend, foe corporation's Uni¬
ted States correspondent, it
was disclosed yesterday.

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One child in two
believes divorce
is only temporary

By Frances Gibb, Legal Affairs Correspondent

The effects of divorce on
children - a third of whom
lose contact with one parent as
an immediate result of separa¬
tion - are highlighted in
research published today.

It shows that children are
given little information about
their parents' divorces and
that nearly half of them
; thought the separation was
only temporary.

Five years after the divorce,
one child in six still longed for
parents to be reconciled, even
when one or both had
remarried.

The article by Miss Ann
Mitchell, a former research
associate at Edinburgh
University, in Family Law ,
coincides with the launch
today by solicitors and family
counsellors of a scheme to
help divorcing couples sort
- out disputes over money,

, property and children, out of
court.

The scheme, to be run by
the newly-formed Family
Mediators' Association, offers
a different approach to di¬
vorce settlements in this coun¬
try. Couples will be able to go
together to a specially-trained
soficizor and counsellor who
will provide a kind of “media¬
tion" package of advice which
can then be formalized with¬
out the need for lengthy
' courtroom disputes.

Instead of spouses going to
different solicitors, which can
create yet more acrimony and
even drive couples further
apart, the scheme enables
them to sort out their prob¬
lems with the same pro¬

fessional mediators. Miss
Mitchell's research was con¬
ducted on the basis of inter¬
views with some 50 children
five years after their parents
had been divorced.

Three quarters of the child¬
ren were aged nine to 13 at the
Ume of the separation and
mostly were aged 16 to 18 at
the lime of the interviews.

Most children, she found
had been “deeply upset" by
their parents' separation.
“One boy told me: ‘I felt sick
and couldn't get it out of my
mind that my father had left; 1
took a couple of years to get
used to it”

She also found that all of the
11 custodial fathers inter¬
viewed had bees shattered by

Wednesday Page, 13

the ending of their marriages.
But the 60 custodial mothers
had been twice as likely to
have felt relief as distress.

Many of the children had
accepted the eventual divorce
as an inevitable consequence
of the separation. But one in
10 had been shocked to bear
about the divorce, which
brought home the finality of
the separation.

Among other findings are
that only one third of the
parents said they had given
their children any reasons for
the separation. One third said
no explanation was needed as
the reasons were obvious.

She concludes that children
are “more distressed by their
parents* separation than par¬

ents realize". Second, she said
that most children would pre¬
fer to continue living with
both their natural parents,
whatever the domestic situa¬
tion may be.

Third, if parents do split up,
most children want to con¬
tinue a loving relationship
with both mother and father.

Mrs Lisa Parkinson, direc¬
tor of the new Family Medi¬
ators* Association, said:
“Increasingly, couples are ask¬
ing if they can both consult the
same solicitor. Many of them
fear being drawn further apart
if they go to separate solicitors
and there is great anxiety
about the legal costs they may
incur."

But a solicitor, at present,
who seeks to provide impar¬
tial advice to both parties risks
being in breach of professional
rules on confiicis of interest,
she said. This can be avoided
if it is made clear that the
lawyer acts as mediator, and
not as a solicitor.

The scheme, which will
have funding from the
Nuffield Foundation, is based
on a two-year pilot project
that has been run in London
by a group of six solicitors and
counsellors.

It is now planned under the
new association to expand the
scheme to train a number of
lawyers and other pro¬
fessionals so that mediation
can be offered to couples
outside London. Interest has
been expressed in starting:
such centres in Plymouth,
Cambridge, Liverpool and
Sheffield.

Breast surgery woman fails

. Mrs Margaret Lee, who sued a
plastic suigeon after cosmetic
surgery to her breasts went
wrong, won sympathy but no
damag es in the High Court
yesterday.

She was “obsessed with a
desire to have the shape of her
body altered", Mr Justice
Drake said. She had six opera-
, tions to enlarge her breasts but
they have been left scarred
and as small as before.

In rejecting her claim for
damBgK against Mr Thomas
Cochrane, a Harley Street
plastic surgeon, the judge said
he bad “considerable sym¬
pathy" for her. “She is dis¬
satisfied with her body,
although many women would
envy her figure.”

He believed she would have
had the operation whatever

the risks involved. “Unhap¬
pily everything that could go
wrong with this type of surgery
did go wrong."

She now sought to recover
the £1,000 she paid Mr
Cochrane for the operation in
April 1982 to put right the
“hard, uncomfortable and
badly shaped” breasts left by
cosmetic surgery in 1967.

She also wanted damages
for the pain and suffering she
had suffered. “Her mental
anguish must have been
considerable", the judge said.
Bom an eariy date the 1982
operation was a failure.

In evidence Mrs Lee, of
Beech Road, Weslgate, Kent,
said she had sought the opera¬
tion because her breasts had
gone a peculiar shape, turned
“hard and blue" and the

stitches were rotting. She said
she was given a virtual guar¬
antee of success by Mr
Cochrane, the judge said.
While he did not think she was
a deliberately untruthful wit¬
ness. Mr Cochrane was an
impressive witness and he
believed him when be said he
warned her of the risks.

It had been accepted that
Mr Cochrane had carried out
the operation with skiff The
only dispute was whether he
had warned her of the risks.

“She may have persuaded 1
herself that she has a cause of
action against Mr Cochrane. It
is one that does not exist and
her claim fails” he said.

As she left court Mrs Lee
said: “I am not lying. I will
only talk further to the highest,
bidder”

Children’s introduction to the dance

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of the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, dances with Sarah Severn, aged seven, Ganizka Martin, aged seven,

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Opera House. They were among pupils from 10 London schools presenting work created during the autumn term with the help of
members of the ballet company. Dancers and nmsddans had visited the schools to introduce the children to all aspects of ballet.

Mother ‘blamed father for death

A mother told police that her
partner had murdered her
daughter aged 16 months, the
Central Criminal Court was
told yesterday.

Christine Mason, aged 21, is
alleged to have said: “This is
all down to him — he mur¬
dered my baby”

Police Insp Mary Tucker
said that she saw Miss Mason
the day after the child, Doreen
Mason, died of a brain haem¬
orrhage. She said Miss Mason
stated: “Aston. It is all down
to him. He was hitting the
baby on Thursday and she
kept getting up and he kept
hitting her back down.

“Oh, God, I have got to talk

to someone — he kept hitting
her. She kept felling on to a
hard floor and then he was
pushing and punching her
against the waff By Friday she
was in a coma. I told him she
was quiet and not herself”

Mason allegedly went on: “I
knew something was wrong
with her, but he said the baby
was winding us up. I said don’t
be stupid. How carr a baby
wind us up? What did he
know? This is down to him —
he murdered my baby. I just
had to teD someone and now I
have, I feel better. He broke
her leg, you know."

Miss Mason and Mr Aston,
23, of Doddington

Grove, Walworth, south
London, deny murdering the
child on September 13 last
year, and deny child cruelty.

Mr Aston is alleged to have
told police that Miss Mason
mistreated the baby. Det Con¬
stable Michael Croft told the
court that Mr Aston said: “She
kept picking on the baby,
being rough with it and pulling
it about. 1 do not think she
tikes the baby. She smacked
her because she would not eat.
She hits her for nothing
sometimes.”

The court was told that
Aston denied causing any of
the baby’s bruises. The hear¬
ing continues today.

• A father murdered his baby
daughter because he was jeal¬
ous of the attention given her
by his wife, a jury at the
Central Criminal Court was
told yesterday. Kevin Browne,
aged 26, became angry when
the child cried or wanted her
mother, Mrs Lisa Browne,
aged 19. The child died on
November 14 last year, aged
seven months, from a brain
haemorrhage after being vi¬
olently shaken by her father, it
is alleged. Mr Browne, of
Kirkham Street Plum stead,
south-east London, (deads not
guilty to murder.

The hearing continues
today.

Witness
‘lied’ in
newsboy
death case

A man who implicated one of
the convicted killers of Carl
Bridgewater, the newsboy,
told the Court of Appeal in
London yesterday that the
evidence he had given -nine
years ago was a lie.

Mr Brian Sinton, aged 31,
was reminded at the new
appeal inquiry into the case
that he had told Stafford
Crown Court that Michael
Hickey had actually admitted
to him in prison that he had
shot the boy. aged 13, at Yew
Tree Farm.

Miss Anna Worrall,
representing Michael Hickey,
asked Mr Sinton: “Was that
true, or was it a tie?"

Mr Simon said: “It was a
tie".

The confession came on the
tenth day of the new appeal
ordered by Mr Douglas Hurd,
Home Seaman 1 , for cousins
Michael and Vincent Hickey
and James Robinson, all given
life sentences in 1979 for
murder and aggravated
burglary.

Mr Sinton, who has since
changed his surname to
Barradough and who gave an
address in Longwood, West
Yorkshire, was asked if he had
ro/d the truth at the murder
trial at the outset of his
evidence.

He then sat through almost
two hours of screened and
tape-recorded interviews of
him in 1986 in which he had
retracted what he said in 1979.

He was shown at a Central
Television news conference
and was heard confessing: “1
lied. 1 have had guilty feelings
ever since."

He alleged that he had been
set up to do it by prison
officers and the police.

He was reminded that he
had said that be spoke to
Michael Hickey in the shower
block at Winson Green prison.
Birmingham, when Hickey
confessed to the 1978 murder.

Hickey “never admitted
once that he killed Carl
Bridgewater". Mr Sinton said.

He told Miss Worrall that
he had not been bullied or put
under any pressure in 1986.

The hearing continues to¬
day.

Judge gives warning of dangers in secrets laws

By Michael Horsnell

who presided over the first
er court hearing spoke out
yesterday against the dangers of
government legislation in civil laws
governing confidentiality.

, Mr Justice Scott said that judges
should be left alone to develop and
reflect what society needed.

Addressing a conference on con¬
fidentiality and breach of confidence
organized by Essex University School
of Law in Colchester, he said govern¬

ment interference would inhibit the
development of civil law.

He made dear afterwards that he
welcomed the Spycalcher litigation.
He said: “It was important* for the
opportunity it afforded for a review of
the law of confidential information
and for the clarification of the law
produced by the House of Lords
judgements". It was the first time a
judge involved in the Spycaicher
litigation has spoken pnbtidy about it

Mr Justice Scott held in the

Chancery Division of the High Court
last year that the Attorney General
was not entitled to injunctions against
the Observer and the Guardian news¬
papers, which outlined allegations
made by Mr Peter Wright the author,
because publication of the book
overseas bad already caused, the
damage which the injunctions sought
to prevenL

He further held that The Sunday
Times had been in breach of its duty
of confidence when it published the

first extract of its intended serial¬
ization. He also refused the Attorney
General an injunction restraining
future publication of information
from security service members.

Yesterday he said: “The law in this
area should never be driven into a cul-
de-sac. The law of confidentiality
must serve the interests of society as it
is and not as it was. That requires
flexibility and it is for that reason that
legislative interference should be kept
to a minimum.”

Closures
‘will cost
life at sea 9

By Mark Eliis

Britain's coastguards say lives
wifi be lost at sea because of
cuts that led to the closure
yesterday of one of their
busiest stations, covering 40
miles of coastline.

Hartland Point rescue sta¬
tion in north Devon was the
first of three earmarked to
dose. The others, Moray, near
Peterhead in north-east Scot¬
land, and Ramsey, the only
rescue centre on the Isle of
Man, will be shut early next
year.

Mr Tom Hoyes. assistant
general secretary of the Nat¬
ional Union of Civil and
Public Servants, which repre¬
sents Britain's 538 coast¬
guards, said: “Mayday calls
will be missed and it is
inevitable there will be a
situation when lives will be
lost".

He said 12 staff from the
160-year-old Devon • station
were being transferred, some
to Swansea in South Wales.

Captain Peter Harris, Brit¬
ain’s chief coastguard, said the
union's claims were “ex¬
tremely misleading?

He added: “I would never
have recommended the do-
sure if I lboighiii was going to
worsen the situation for
mariners".

The Department of Trans¬
port said: “There will be no
dilution of cover and no
detriment to safety. The rea¬
son for dosing the three rescue
centres is advances in technol- •
ogy”

Father gives bomb evidence

The father of Marie Wilson,
who was one of 11 killed in the
Remembrance Day bombing
at Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh,
last year, gave evidence at an
inquest into the deaths in
Enniskillen yesterday.

Mr Gordon Wilson said
that he had arrived at the
cenotaph with his daughter
just before 10.40am.

“I was standing with my
back against the wall of the old
school buijding. I just said
good morning to some people
] knew and asked Marie if she
had a good view.

“I heard a loud explosion. I
was blown forward and cov¬
ered under rubble: My daugh¬
ter was beside me holding my
band. We had a short conver¬
sation. After a short period, I
was pulled from the rubble
and conveyed to hospital by
police car."

Mr Wilson said be was
treated for a dislocated collar
bone, bruising, grazing, cots
and shock. He was told then
that his daughter had died as a

result of her injuries. He said:
“I would say h was a miracle
that there were not more
people killed”.

The hearing was told that
Miss Wilson, aged 20. a trai¬
nee nurse at the Royal Victo¬
ria Hospital, Belfast, had re¬
turned to her home to accom¬
pany her father to the service.

Mr James Rodgers, the cor¬
oner, described the IRA bom¬
bers as cruel cowards who had
shown total disregard for hu¬
man life. He said: “The sheer
brutality of this heinous crime
was both cowardly and indisc¬
riminate in its nature. It sent
shock waves not only through
the local community but
around the world. One is over¬
taken by a sense of outrage."

Mr Rodgers, the Armagh
coroner, was standing in for
Mr Rainey Hanna, the local
coroner, who excused himself
on the grounds that he knew
all of those who died.

Earlier, the hearing was tokl
that the Provisional IRA

bomb contained between 10kg
and 20kg of explosives and
was probably home made.

Det Chief Insp John Allerton
said the bomb went off inside
old school house. The

an

bomb was big enough to blow
out the gable wall of the
reading rooms behind which it
was placed and to bring it
crashing down onto civilia n s
on the pavement.

Pathologists* reports
showed all the dead had
suffered multiple injuries .and
crush asphyxia. The jury re¬
turned formal finding* that all
11 died from multiple injuries
inflicted by the bomb.

The dead were William Mullan,
aged 73; his wife, Nessie, aged
70; Weslie Armstrong, aged 63;
his wife, Bertha, aged 53; Kit
Johnston, aged 70; his wife, Jes¬
sie. aged 70; Miss Wilson; Ed¬
ward Armstrong, aged 52, an
RUC officer; Samuel" Gault,
aged 49; Mrs Georgina Quinton,
a|ed 72; and John Megaw, aged

Doctor guilty of misconduct

A doctor who refused to visit a
boy aged three months who
later died in hospital was
yesterday found guilty of seri¬
ous professional misconduct

Dr Hemendra Pandya, aged
43, of Coventry, foiled to visit
Richard Wolste&holme, who
was in his care because he was
too busy, a disciplinary hear¬
ing was told. The child died
eight days later of dehydra¬
tion.

The professional conduct
committee of the General

Medical Council issued a
severe warning to him after
ruling he had “seriously dis¬
regarded his professional re¬
sponsibilities", but decided he
should be allowed to continue
working as a GP.

Sir Henry Yellowlees, the
committee chairman, told Dr
Pandya that it accepted the
case was an isolated failure.

Richard, of Stoke Aider-
moor, Coventry, bad been
suffering from sickness and
diarrhoea for weeks and had

been visited at home by Dr
Pandya, bat on December 23,
1986, when the boy's condi¬
tion deteriorated. Dr Pandya,
a father of two, would only
telephone a repeat prescrip¬
tion through to the nearest
chemist

Finally, on Christinas Eve,
after another unsuccessful at¬
tempt to get Dr Pandya to
visit, the baby’s father took
him to Walsgrave Hospital
where he died on New Year’s
Day.

‘Intelligent home 9 sets task for British firms

By Robert Matthews
Technology Correspondent

British consumer electronics companies
will be told today that they are on the

“Home automation is going to provide
one of the largest new markets ever for
goods and services", the report says.

A British electronics company, Thom
EMI, is leading a group of Emnpean

_ __ at tire Science Policy

Research Unit Sussex University, will
tefl the conference that more attention
must be paid to training engineers- “If

the market reafly does glow, there wffl be

verge of one of the biggest boom markets companies in a project designed to problems. There rir^ is a problem

■ in decades, triggered by the advent of the p^ace compatible standards to ensure with inleUigeiit offices’.

. “intelligent home* 1 . that equipment bought from one maun- He is also concerted mat the

fectnrer will operate with that of any

. A number of UK electronics companies
■ am already working on the development
; of the equipment needed for the auto-
- mated home in which hearing, lighting
land electrical appliances are all con¬
trolled by a computer.

* According to a report by the National
' Economic Development Office and

• RMDP, the consultancy company, to be
discussed at a conference m London

‘today, the market for a boat of such
-domestic g&dgetry is about to open.

other. The move is seen as crucial to the
development of a large eoongh market to
fight off the expected threat of imported
technology from Japan, where the big
electronics companies have already

reached agreement on standards.

However, fears exist that there are too
few engineers in the UK with the
technical drills to install and repair the
sophisticated equipment

Mr David Gann, a researcher in

notoriously low-tech construction in¬
dustry may not be aWe to cope with the
fl efwantfe of bunding homes containing
the high-tech equipment. He said con¬
struction companies must collaborate
with the electronics companies. Japanese
construction companies were already
arriving in force in the UK and had an
enviable record. .

Automating the Ho me, A Guide to the
Opportunities for British Companies
(RMDP, Ship Sum, Brighton; £95).

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Although government legislation requires all
car manufacturers to test for 100% head-on collision,
Mercedes-Benz also carry out
additional head-on collision
tests when the Impact
is concentrated
on 40% of the
car’s frontal
area. In Germany for
example, research has shown this accident happens
three times more frequently than 100% head-on
collisions. As a result, all Mercedes-Benz safety cells
and crumple zones are now engineered to disperse
the unique stresses of both types of collision. Which
means impact energy is absorbed progressively and
displaced into forked longitudinal members
mounted onto extremely rigid sidewall, floor
pan and transmission tunnel structures. The
energy is therefore dissipated by being
transmitted and absorbed in three different directions.

This is a fine example of Mercedes-Benz
research and engineering taking the lead in safety
development

A Crash Test Every Three Days

interests. Mercedes-Benz allowed it to be infringed
in everybody’s interests, so other car makers could
incorporate the idea into their own body designs.

A gesture that speaks for itself.

In 1959, Mercedes-Benz became the first manu¬
facturer to systematically crash test and roll-over
test their cars. In that year. 80 were destroyed in

Mercedes-Benz design
their cars for the accident

SCIENTIFIC CRASH TESTING CIKCA l*»

the search for greater passenger security. Since then,
no car maker has placed greater emphasis on crash
testing, and many others reap the benefits simply
by adopting the results of Mercedes-Benz
pioneering research.

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that happens most

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on average. Because safety
research is an integral {■'

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design process, many tests ?...
are conducted on compo- f-
nents and prototypes prior
to full scale production of a new model.

Consequently, the safety development team
are well placed to impose their priorities on the
fundamental design of 'a car. Today's Mercedes-Benz
models are the most thoroughly tested and safest
the company have ever built.

The Mercedes-Benz safety steering system, as
an example, is fitted with a distorting cup within
the steering wheel, and a collapsible, corrugated
column that will not intrude into the passenger
compartment in either a head-on or off-set
collision. Nor can the clutch or brake
pedals behave like blunt instru¬
ments. Because of
the likelihood of

severe accident
t

injuries to the feet, the pedals are designed to
swing away from the driver on impact

The Fathers Of Automotive Safety

The history of Mercedes-Benz safety con¬
sciousness dates from 1931 when they developed
independent front suspension to ensure safer
roadholding. And as long as thirty-seven years
ago, long before "crumple zone' and 'safety cell’
became part of car industry jargon, Mercedes-Benz
patented the first impact-absorbing body shell.
But rather than protect the patent in their own

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Engineered like No Other Car
In The World.

Computer-aided engineering, combined with exten¬
sive use of high strength, low-alloy steel, ensures
that Mercedes-Benz monocoque body shells are
not only light, but are also outstandingly strong.
Such a highly rigid shell is the basic safety element.

its front and rear sec¬
tions designed to
yield progressively
in major accidents.
They absorb kinetic
energy and divert the fyfl
force away from; the passenger
safety cell. Strong cross-members
are built into the floor pan to
stiffen further the safety cell's resist¬
ance to side impact. Additional single section
roof (tame cross-members enhance the total load
bearing capacity of the roof in front, side and
roll-over impacts.

■ How The Use Of Air Can Reduce Injury Risk

All inertia-reel safety belts fitted
to the front seats of Mercedes-Benz
cars, have electronic belt tensioners
as standard. Above a predetermined level of impact,
the tensioner is activated and pulls
the belt taut around the body
in milliseconds, reducing forward
movement of driver and front seat passenger.
Above certain speeds, however, impact
injuries can still occur no matter
how sophisticated the seat belts are.

Therefore, Mercedes-Benz also offer a^SH^SSSSSw,
an electronically controlled airbag that is neatly
stowed In the steering wheel hub. This innovatory
safety feature has been available since 1981 and is
already fitted to 400,000 Mercedes-Benz cars. A
normally invisible guardian, it inflates in milliseconds,
under Impact, to cushion the drivers head and greatly
reduce the risk of chest injuries. Further proof that
the Mercedes-Benz commitment to safety is uncom¬
promising. and continues unabated.

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Hinkley Point inquiry

Coal-fired station would
cost less, admits board

Science Editor
The Central Electricity Gen-

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that it Would be cheaper to
build a new coal-fired power
station than the proposed
nuclear plant at Hinkley Point
in Somerset under the terms
of a privatized electricity sup¬
ply industry.

The admission comes in a
special report prepared for the
public inquiry into plans to
build a £1.5 billion pressur¬
ized water reactor (PWR) at
Hinkley Point

In the past nuclear power
station projects have been
cushioned against com¬
petition by a calculation of
the cost of electricity they
produced using a 5 per cent
return on capital investment

The new report comparing
coal and nuclear costs was
requested by Mr Michael
Baines, QC, inspector to the
inquiry. It says the Hinkley *0
station would be more eco¬

nomic than a coal-fired station However after numerous The new evidence, submit-

at^prestttt 5 percent rate of submissions from objectors at ted in the form of a memoran-
c f ar ^ r ^ which is taking dura, says there is no single

cent rate likely after
privatization.

At a 10 per cent rate the
economics of a new n uclea r
station would be “significantly
adverse 1 * against all the alter¬
natives, the report says.

The report underlines the
CEGB*s main argument for
Hinkley Point C, which is to
me et the future level of fuel
diversity, after privatization,
set by the Government'for
about 20 per cent of electricity
generation to be met by non-

The Central Electricity
Generating Board, which
wants to build the PWR
alongside two present sndear
stations at Hinkley, had ear¬
lier declined to give evidence
on comparative costs between
coal and nuclear stations.

The board said such evi¬
dence would be unhelpful to
the inquiry.

Bridgwater, Somerset, Mr
Barnes asked it to submit a
report

The report was. presented
yesterday by Lord Silsoe, QC,
for tbe board.

He said the report was
presented without prejudice to
tbe board's case: It was sot
needed for the Secretary of
State to reach his decision.

Mr Frank Je n ltin. the

board’s corporate director of
strategic p lanning , said later
that the economic advantages
of coal over nuclear were

marginal.

He emphasized the diffi¬
culties of economic forecast¬
ing and gave warning of
considerable uncertainties
over future price rises for coal
and a possible movement
away from fossil-fuelled
generation because of inter¬
national concern about the
greenhouse efiect

of anew nuclear power station
compare with a new coal-fired
power station.

The economic merit of the
proposed Hinkley Point C
pressuriz e d water reactor
compared with tbe main alter¬
native of a new coal station
depends on uncertain factors
including future coal prices
and the value of the required
rate of return on tbe capital
investment, the board says.

There is no single rate of
return that has remained un¬
changed over a Jong period,
and fluctuations are likely to
continue.

That confirms figures
submitted in evidence to the
select committee on eneigy
this year. For a 10 per cent
return, a new nuclear station is
likely to be more expensive
than coal-based options, un¬
less coal prices are sustained at
high levels.

Muslims protest at school decision

By Douglas Broom
Education Reporter

Islamic activists in Bailey, West York¬
shire, last night threatened to lay siege to
the local town hall in protest at a decision
to refuse to allow a private Muslim girls
school to join the state system.

Community leaders said that more
than 1,000 people would join the protest
outside Huddersfield Town Hall next
Wednesday in an attempt to persuade
Kirkiees Borough Council not to ratify
the decision of its education committee.

Tbe council, which earlier this year

settled another school dispute with racial
overtones by allowing parents at Dews¬
bury to send children to the schools of
their choice, has a strong commitment to
racial equality.

At a private meeting two weeks ago the
education committee decided to recom- *
mend the full council not to approve an
application from tire 127-pupil Zakaria
Muslim Girls High School for voluntary
aided stains, similar to that enjoyed by
Christian and Jewish schools within the
state system.

The committee derided that the

7afama ) w hich is o fficially rBcngnia^ g$

an independent school by the Depart¬
ment of Education and Science, was too
small to join the slate sector.

It also said giving the school voluntary
aided status, which would entitle it to
financial- support from the council,
would place undue strain on council
funds when there were already adequate
school places in tbe area.

The final derision on status will be
made by Mr Kenneth Baker, the
Secretary of State for Education and
Science. Muslim leaders decided to
approach Mr Baker directly if the council
upheld the committee's decision.

Marx gets clean-up but not for Mr G

CHRIS HARRIS

By Andrew Baten
Arts Correspondent

Television crews and press
photographers descended On

morning u the mistaken belief
that the Karl Marx memorial
was being tidied up in readi¬
ness for inspection by Presi¬
dent Gorbachov, who is
visiting Britain next week.

Mr Christopher Clarke and
Miss Simone Boux, restora¬
tion and conservation students
from the City ami GnBds of
London Art School, were
cleaning Mara's bushy head.

However, Mis Jean Pate-
man, chairman of the Friends
of Highg&te Cemetery, said
that no request bad been
received from the President to
visit the testing place of fab
nation's ideolog»cil founder.

“When there was talk of Mr
G coming last time, we had
detectives from No 10 around
there for a week. We would
certainly know about it", she
said.

Mara’s tombstone, in fact,
is only one of several that are
being worked on by Mr Nick
Durmui's students. It needs
attention because of a recent
attack by vandals, who
covered parts of the head with
point.

Mr Daman, who teaches
the three-year course, said his
students had found traces of
past vandalism in the form of
red, bine and white paint
underneath. “In tbe end we
found the only sure way of
getting it all off was to nse a
scalpel**, he said.

They had replaced the
tombstone's fading bronzed
lettering with £40 of gold leaf,
so that yesterday the exhorta¬
tion that ends the Communist
Manifesto, translated in
Highgate as “Workers of all
lands unite", gleamed in the
son.

Urgent work is being under¬
taken on other tombs
The cemetery, which is
owned and ran by charity, is

Miss Simone Boux face to face with Marx yesterday in Highgate Cemetery, north London, still in nse as a burial ground.

Baker accused of
science loophole

By Our Education Reporter

The Engineering Council yes¬
terday accused Mr Kenneth
Baker, Secretary of State for
Education and Science; of
creating a “loophole" in the
national curriculum by insist¬
ing that some pupils should
spend less time studying sci¬
ence than others.

The council's new director
general, Mr Denis Filer, a
former senior executive of
ICl, said that plans to allow
schools the choice of whether
to devote 20 per cent or
12.5 per cent of their time¬
tables to science teaching flew
in the face of the national
curriculum's underlying pol¬
icy of “science for all".

The National Curriculum
Council said on Monday that
although it believed that sci¬
ence teaching should occupy
20 per cent of curriculum time
it bad bowed to pressure from
Mr Baker to let schools opt for
12.5 percent.

Mr Baker was in the audi¬
ence at a conference in
London on Science in the
Sixth Form when Mr Filer
suggested that the “shorter
course" plan might be a way of
getting round teacher short-

Devoting just 12.5 per cent
if curriculum time was “not
cceptaUe for the t ea c h i ng of
olanced science". Mr Filer
aid. The Engineering Council
ad campaigned for a 20 per
ent time allocation because it
elieved the country needed
a broad and balanced science
iimculum".

The minister also faced
uupoken criticism from

other speakers. Professor Dick
West, of the Open University,
asked why he wanted some
pupils to get “a second class
science education"

Mr Graham Hill, a deputy
headmaster and chairman of
the Association for Science
Education, said that pupils
who spent only 1ZS per cent
of their time on science would
not be able to cope with A
levels.

Mr Baker, who has yet to
make his formal response to
the council, later issued a
strong reply to his riitics in a
letter to Mr Jack Straw, Lab¬
our fiontbench spokesman on
education.

“There is no argument
about the feet that the major¬
ity of pupils should be en¬
couraged to take the full
20 per cent programme” Mr
Baker said.

“But we must be prepared
to allow some flexibility at this
stage for a minority of pupils
whose time would be better
spent developing a special
talent in, say, languages.

“We must safeguard against
pupils taking die 12.5 percent
course as a soft option and
cutting themselves off too
early from tbe possibility of
studying science beyond 16”

Mr Baker said the National
Curriculum Council had en¬
dorsed his view that requiring
all pupils to study science for
20 per cent of the timetable
would be “too rigid". The
suggestion that the 125 per
cent option was meant to cope
with teacher shortages was
“without foundation”.

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Getty’s medieval
texts fetch £2.5m

The Getty Museum raised
E2.5 million from tbe sale of
right important medieval
manuscripts at Sotheby’s,
London, yesterday, a respect¬
able total for what was a dear-
mi of excess stock, although
mi far above estimate.

The manuscripts had been
X) tight by the. museum in
1983 as part of the Ludwig
Collection of 144 manu¬
scripts, and were disposed of
xxausc they were uniUu-
ninated, and deemed outside
he scope of the collection.

All four top Jots .were
joughi by a partnership of
3uaritch. the London dealers,
md HP Kraus, of New York.

They included, at £638.000,

he Canones ConcUiorum, a
flection of texts on the law
md history of the early Chris-
ian church written by a scribe
rom Ireland or Notthuraber-
and in the eighth century. It
vas probably the oldest Euro-
Kon book to appear at aue-
ion for more than 50 years-

The entire corpus of srien-
ific work on chronology and
he nature and structure of the
ianh by the great Angto-
laxon polymath, Bede,
inched £616,000.

The highest price in the
pneral safe was £ 220,000
within estimate) for the Mis-
issippi Codex. Written on
apyrus in thethiid century, it

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Art Market
Correspondent

the Sahidic dialect of Coptic,
and the first Epistle of St
Peter. Amid continuing con¬
troversy about whether
churches and cathedrals
should sell their treasures, the
diocese of Peterborough be¬
came £170,000 richer yes¬
terday, when it sold an
important terracotta bust by
Michael Rysbrack at Chris¬
tie's London.

It was bought for stock by
the London dealers, Haziitt
Gooden & Fox. The sale,
which was the first of a
working model by the artist,
came about after permission
was given by the Church
Commissioners.

It is the model for the
marble monument to John
palmer. Archdeacon of North¬
ampton, which remai ns in the
church of Ecton.

Two bronzes by Antonio
Snstni cast from a model by
the sixteenth century Italian
sculptor, Giambologna,
fetched joint top price of
£440,000. Both were bought
by the same anonymous
buyer. There were joint
records of £42,900 for two
busts by Joseph NoSefcens.

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Hospital’s mistakes and miscalculations listed | The life and death of a British hero

Radiation error put lives of
up to 10 patients in danger

jfy Thomson Prentice compiled- But through confii- It said that Mr Cook was “at

Mistakes and miscalculations
by doctors and health officials
compounded the mathemat¬
ical blunder which caused
more than 200 cancer patients
to receive overdoses of radi¬
ation, according to investiga¬
tions Into the “unprccedenr-
ted” accident at the Royal
Devon and Exeter Hospital

Reports of two independent
investigations published yes¬
terday said that severe radi¬
ation bad endangered the lives
of up to 10 patients while
another 40 were at high risk of
serious complications. A fur¬
ther 20 were at moderate risk
of developing related side
effects.

Seventy-eight of the pa¬
tients have died since receiv¬
ing the overdoses between
February and July of this year.
However, Professor Charles
Joslin, of Leeds University,
said in bis report that they
were all in the terminal stages
of cancer and their deaths
could not be attributed to the
accident.

The other report by a com¬
mittee chaired by Sir Bryan
Thwaites, the former chair¬
man of Wessex Health Au¬
thority, is strongly critical of
medical and managerial staff
involved in the aflkir and
recommends 21 changes or
improvements in hospital
procedures.

Mr Murray French, the
chairman of Exeter Health
Authority, said yesterday all
the recommendations bad
been accepted and changes
made. He said the authority
was now preparing to pay
damag es to victims of the
accident and their relatives.

Lawyers representing 76
families, including 10 who
have lost a relative, said

Mr Stuart Cook: “At least
careless, at worst negligent”,
yesterday they were seeking
substantial interim damages.

The incident began on Feb¬
ruary 12 when Mr Stuart
Cook, a medical physicist,
wrongly calculated the output
of radiation from a radio¬
therapy machine at the itos-
pitaL

The machine had received a
new piece of radioactive co¬
balt and the effect of Mr
Cook’s error was that all
patients being treated on it
received up to 25 per cent
more radiation than intended.
Towards the end of May,
nursing staff began to suspect
that some patients were not
healing as rapidly as would
normally be expected. But
from then until mid July the
caused remained undetected.

It was only discovered by
chance when the hospital
agreed to take part in a survey
of radiation equipment or¬
ganized by the Institute of
Physical Sciences in Medicine.
On July 12 the machine’s
output was measured for the
purpose of the survey and the
error of February 12 was
identified.

Use of the mariiim» was.
suspended the following day
and a list of 205 patients was

compiled. But through confu¬
sion and disagreement among
consultants over who had
actually received treatment a
total of only 153 patients was
reported to the hospital

wianaymHit

A standard letter was sent
on July 25 to surviving pa¬
tients among this number, but.
the next ofltin of dead patients
were not contacted by the
hospital

Through a “precipitate and
unwise” decision the regional
health authority held a press
-conference on July 22 to give
details of the accident.

“The chief consequence was
that the first intimation that
many patients had of their
overdose was through the
press or television. This
caused much distress to pa¬
tients and to bereaved rel¬
atives and has been expressed
strongiy in many of the letters
received by foe inquiry”, the
Thwaites report said.

Not until mid October was
ft realized that other patients
in addition to the 153 on the
list had received treatment. A
fresh examination of appoint¬
ments for radiotherapy sho¬
wed 54 others were involved.
Some of those were not con¬
tacted until the end of
October.

Of this phase the report
said; “The ensuing investiga¬
tions threw up a highly un¬
satisfactory state of affaire
Given the potential danger to
patients who had received an
overdose the management
should have satisfied itself
more thoroughly as to the
number of patients involved.

“It is regrettable that the

need for any patient to be told
of mistreatment appears not
to have had a high priority in
the minds of managers and
clinicians ", foe report said.

It said that Mr Cook was “at
feast careless and at foe worst
negligent” in malting the orig¬
inal error. His calculation was
not checked by a senior physi¬
cist or the head of his depart¬
ment, contravening both an
“unwritten policy” and stan¬
dards dictated “by prudence
or self defence”.

When on July 4 Mr Cook

rechecked his calculation be

“incomprehensibly” failed to
notice his error.

The Thwaites report said
that the ideal reaction of foe
hospital to such an accident
should have been “di sc ree t,
deliberate and above an
speedy and in the best in¬
terests of the patients”.

In his report Professor
Joslin, a leading radiologist,
said some of foe patients faced
late reactions which would
occur months or years after
their overdose: Ten were at
very high ride of severe radi¬
ation damage “which might be
life threatening in a few”. Two
patients in this category are
known to have died.

He said 40 others were at
high risk of snffering riamagp
which would be severe in
some cases but not expected to
be life threatening. Two of
these patients are also known
to have died.

Of foe total of 78 deaths, all
patients had either locally
advanced cancer, recurrent
cancer or widespread disease
and all bat four had been
receiving treatment essentially
to lessen the severity of tire
cancer rather than cure it.

“The patients at highest risk
wifi require careful and regular
clinical

Mr Cook and his head of
department. Dr GS. BoWring,
were dismissed by the health
authority in July but are
understood to be appealing.

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‘US empire’ has ended, says Powell

By Richard Ford
Political Correspondent

Mr Enoch Powell last night
said that changes in the Soviet
Union meant there was no
longer a rational explanation
forfoe stationing of American
troops in western Europe.

He said the collapie of the
twin pillars of the American
empire presented foe states of

Europe with the opportunity
to create a new structure in
which the future pattern of
central Europe could develop
without threatening disaster
for foe rest of the continent
and foe world.

Mr PoweU. speaking six
days before President
Gorbachov arrives on an of¬
ficial visit in Britain, said
developments had taken place

which had changed the beliefs
of many people in European
countries.

He told the Chester Busi¬
ness Qub that the states of
Europe knew that neither
Russia nor America seriously
believed in nudear deterrence,
after the signing of the INF
agreement.

Mr Powell said the Ameri¬
can empire had been based on

foe belief that the Soviet
Union was bent on conquer*
mg western Europe.Thai had
allowed British Treasury min*
isters to halve the proportion
of the national income spent
on foe Armed Forces, .

The collapse of the Ameri¬
can empire had undermined
the desirability of political and
military unification in western
Europe.

Health care budgets for GPs

Crucial vote on pilot study

ByJin Sherman, Social Services Correspondent

A pilot study to give family
doctors budgets to buy hos¬
pital care for their patients
could be in jeopardy if GPs
fail to give it the go-ahead
tomorrow.

The study, at a group prac¬
tice in Talgarth, Powys,, may
pave the way for reform in the
National Health Service if it
gets off the ground.

However, there has been
considerable opposition by
some GPs in the area who see
the scheme as a cost-cutting
measure designed to restrict
clinical freedom.

Powys local medical com¬
mittee (LMC), which has 21
members and which repre¬
sents all GPs in the area, wifi
deride tomorrow whether to
give approval to the first phase
of foe scheme — a feasibility
study to assess costs and
referral rates.

Although the four doctors
who have volunteered would
still be able to go ahead with
foe scheme, one of foe GPs
has already said that he would
opt to withdraw if the LMC

vetoed the plan. The British
Medical Association's GP
committee has backed the
scheme but Dr Bryn John, its
chairm an, said yesterday that
he could not advise the study
to proceed without the LMC
backing. “If we cannot get
approval from GPs locally,
what hope do we have for the
rest of foe country?”

The idea of letting GPs hold
the purse strings for primary
and hospital care has now
emerged as the central plank
in the Prime Minister’s review
of the health service and has
firm backing from Mr
Kenneth Clarke, Secretary of
State for Health-

Money would travel with
foe patient through the system
and GPs would negotiate con¬
tracts with hospital doctors to
treat their patients. Consul¬
tants attracting foe most pa¬
tients would attract the most
money.

The Powys practice in¬
volves both the chairman and
secretary of the local medical
committee — Dr Derek Wil¬

son and Dr Ijen Harvey —
giving it a greater chance of
support tomorrow.

Dr John hopes that giving
GPs budgets could result in
allowing them greater access
to diagnostic procedures such,
as X-rays and pathology tests.
If GPs were. able ■ to refer
patients: directlyfor tests in¬
stead of through a consultant,
time and expense could be
saved, he said yesterday.

However, he argued that
there would be more admin¬
istrative work involved. Some
GPs would be better managers
than others, and there could
be restrictions on referral
patterns. • '

Dr Harvey, who said that he
would withdraw from foe
scheme if it was not approved
tomorrow, was sceptical about
how politicians would inter¬
pret the results. “Powys is a
very different district from
anywhere else in Wales or the
United Kingdom. Ministers
cannot say this is what hap-'
pens in Powys so you have to*
do that everywhere else."

Thatcher to seek

more inner city aid

By Our Public Administration Correspondent

Juryman
had prison
record

The Prime Minister wifi later
this week open a new area in
what foe considers a personal
crusade to regenera te the inner
cities by stimulating greater
business involvement

In what will be her first
important speech on the inner
cities for several months, foe
will tell the annual meeting of
the Per Cent Qub—a group of
large firms that have commit¬
ted half a per cent of pre-tax
profits to community and
charitable projects — that it is
not enough for big business to
answer the call of conscience.

Medium-size firms must get
involved, loo, she will say. She
will appeal for such firms to
follow the lead of foe dub.

The Per Cent Club itself is
likely to be urged to expand to
include smaller firms, along
lines suggested recently by Sir
Hector Laing, its joint chair¬

man. He told a conference
organized by Business in the
Community last month that
its membership of 170 com¬
panies should be increased to
500 within two years.

In addition Sir Hector said
that corporate donations
should be increased to 1 per
cent of prerax profits and Mrs
Thatcher may pick up that
theme.

Business in the Community

— an inner city charity of
which Sir Hector is chairman

— takes foe line that the best
way of getting businessmen to
do more for charity and the
community is to establish
“role models", corporate lead¬
ers who, in the words of Mr
Robert Davies, deputy chief
executive of BiC, become “a
potent symbol in mobilizing a
sense of needing to be
involved”.

A man with a string of
convictions was removed*
from a jury panel at thei
Central Criminal Court only
when his record was discov-I
ered by chance, it basr
emerged.

An investigation is under
way into how the man was'
selected.

Anyone who has served a
period of imprisonment*
youth detention or who has-
been given a suspended setH
tence or community service
Older during the previous 101
years is disqualified.. “ •.

The juror, aged 26 and from'
Essex, has a record for of¬
fences of dishonesty said hisf
last conviction led to a six-:
month sentence, for burglary. 1 ■
Mr Justice Turner discharged
him from service. The man
said that when he returned his
jury summons he had givens
details of his convictions.

Churchill’s threat of poison gas

By Michael Evans, Defence'Correspondent

A former bead of British
scientific intelligence has writ¬
ten about the day be helped to
dissu a d e Winston Churchill

foe Germans rim-fog foe Sec¬
ond World War.

he had been “asked by MI6”
to produce a report listin g ail
foe novel weapons “however
Car-fetched” that had come to
the surface in intelligejioe
files.

Professor Reginald Jones,
who also served in the 1950s in
foe Cabinet Office’s Joint
Inteffigence Committee (JIC),
Iras disclosed that be was
present at foe War Cabinet's
Crossbow commfttpf on July
18,1944.

Professor Joses, assistant
director of nrtefi^ence at the
hegraning of foe war, was
responsible for monitoring

“novel weapons” being consid¬
ered by the Germans. In 1948

journal called Intt&gnux gad
National Scanty, says: “The
motive whs primarily to ensure
that whatever new weapons
did in feet appear, Churchill
could not afterwards reproach
the inteOjgence services for not
having warned him”.

He “surprised” Omrchm at
the War Cabinet committee
meeting in 1944 by telling him
of ha condusious that foe
Germans oust have buflt at

least a thousand V2 rockets.

Professor Joses, , now aged -•
77 and emeritus professor of
Natural Philosophy at
Aberdeen University writes:;
“Angry both with me and with *
the Germans, he mooted the l
proposal that we should at-/
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ening to nse poison gas if they
branched foe rocket.. None ■
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OVERSEAS

Gorbachov steps into capitalist jungle’s ills and thrills

From Charles Breamer
New York

For a three-day course in post¬
modern capitalism. President Gor¬
bachov could not have come to
New York at a better time.

If he looks beyond the seasonal
trappings, like die premature San¬
tas on Fifth Avenue and the
dazzling Christmas tree in Rocke¬
feller Centre, he mi ght even think
about reviving some of those old
dich£s about the inevitable col¬
lapse of the imperialist state. But
be might also diagnose some ills
that are all too familiar from home.

His reading wOi have told him
that New York is a show that sever
stops, a city that has always
teetered excitingly on the brink of
chaos. And any Rossan-expects to
find a heavy dose of squalor on the
streets of Gotham. Since the local
militia do not round up Man¬
hattan’s regiment of beggars before
state visits, be can confirm every¬

thing they say about the losers in
the capitalist jungle.

He might also learn about in¬
genuity, since begging is a compet¬
itive business here. In Moscow,
there are no mendicants capable of
such approaches as: “I am an alien
who needs cash for spaceship fuel
to return to my planet”

But the other end of the dialectic
win be supplied by a glimpse of the
masses getting and spending in the
fuU blaze of the Christmas spirit
This is the glittering landscape that
Mayor Edward Koch says be
wanted to show the Kremlin
leader, and “once be sees h, he
won’t want to go home a gain ".
That may not be the case, but
100,000 former Soviet citizens
have de ci ded to stay put in New
York over the past decade or so.

The many who drive taxis
delight in preaching the joys of life
in a city where you can do almost
anything. Thai was what Mr
Donald Trump wanted to explain

to Mr Gorbachov before nervous
Soviet officials called off plans for a
visit to the billionaire property
developer's Fifth Avenue tower.

Perhaps they had just heard the
news that Mr Trump has slipped
from his rank as the top symbol of
unbridled excess. His mantle was
snatched last week by Mr Henry
Kravis, the emperor of the take¬
over. Mr Kravis, aged 44, entered
the record books by buying the
RJR Nabisco food and tobacco
company for $25 billion (£14.7
btOfon), almost doubling the high¬
est previous take-over price.

But for a real education on the
darker side of New York in the
roaring 1980s, Mr Gorbachov
might take a look at one or two
moral dramas unfolding in the city.
For example, if he turns on the
television, he could watch this
month's hottest live show — the
.cross examination of Miss Hedda
Nussbamn. .

The city, and much of America.

has been mesmerized by the horri¬
fying testimony of Miss
Nussbaum, a children's book edi¬
tor, in the trial of her common-law
husband in a Manhattan court for
the murder of their adopted daugh¬
ter, aged six. Miss Nussbaum says
she was held a virtual prisoner for a
decade at their Greenwich Village
Oat by Mr Joel Steinberg, a drug-
crazed, Svengali-Kke lawyer.

On Friday, Miss Nussbaum,
deformed from constant beatings,
described how her husband left the
child to die on the floor while the
couple smoked cocaine:

The harrowing account of Mr
Steinberg’s alleged actions was too
much for the self-control of Mayor
Koch, who proclaimed on Sunday
that he would like to “dip him in
hot oil”. Everyone is making the
point that the Sieinbog affair is yet
another symptom of a troubled
society.

The case is all the more worrying
for many because the characters

are middle class, white and Jewish,
rather than hailing from the no-
man's land of the South Bronx and
the other black-dominated districts
where the exploding drug trade has
pushed up the New York murder
rate by 18 per cent this year.

Those districts have themselves
produced a riveting new fable this
month in the scandal of the school
boards. Shortly after a Bronx
headmaster was arrested in the act
of buying “crack", the potent
smokeable derivative of cocaine,
the city authorities launched crim¬
inal proceedings against the entire
district school administration on
charges of corruption, theft and
activities such as turning board
sessions into drug parties.

The television cameras were out
to watch police repossess a grand
piano filched by one board mem¬
ber from a school Prosecutors are
now looking at two other boards,
which are elected bodies, after

involvement in sex orgies, corrup¬
tion and mismanagement.

For many old-time lovers of
New York, there is nothing wrong
with the city itself. It is, they insist,
just suffering from the ravages of
the drug plague. Putting this view
on Monday, Jimmy Breslin, a
journalist, said that the Big Apple
was entering insanity. “Everything
wrong in the city these days is
about drugs.”

Others are looking for under¬
lying causes that have much in
common with the ones Mr
Gorbachov is struggling against in
Moscow — a loss of values and a
prevailing climate of cynicism.

According to the writer, Tom
Wolfe, a lover ofNew York despite
his acid satires, the city's troubles
stem from America’s tremendous
prosperity. “We have awarded
ourselves the final, freedom -
freedom from religion and or¬
dinary ethical standards," he said

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From Christopher Walker, Cairo

Mr Yuli Vorontsov, the
Kremlin’s main international
troubleshooter, predicted yes¬
terday that 1989 would be
“the year of peace" during
which all foreign troops would

the ^^^"in^Uited^irect
negotiations with the Mujahir
din rebels would continue.

Mr Vorontsov, the Soviet
Union's First Deputy Foreign
Minister and new Ambas¬
sador in Kabul, was assessing
weekend talks in Saudi Arabia
at which a Soviet delegation
met rebel representatives for
the first time since the 1979
Soviet invasion.

No date has been set for the
second roundof talks, but they
are expected to begin is
Pakis tan within the next 10 to
15days.

Asked if the Soviet Union
would resume its troop with¬
drawal to meet the deadline of
February 15, 1989, agreed at
Geneva, Mr Vorontsov re¬
fused to be specific.

But earlier, in a statement
released through the official
Saudi Press Agency, he was
quoted as telling King Fahd
that the Kremlin was commit¬
ted to pulling out all its
remaining troops, unofficially
estimated at around 50,000
men. “by the agreed date or
possibly earlier".

Moscow's willingness to at¬
tend the talks with a delega¬
tion representing the loose
alliance of seven Muslim rebel
groups was seen as a further
discreet distancing from Ka¬
bul's communist Govern¬
ment, although its leader,
president N^jibuHah, offici¬
ally declared his backin g for
the meeting in the Saudi
mountain resort ofTaif

A statement made by the rebel
delegation at the Taif talks'
gave no sign of any break¬
through, but h, too, hmted at a
mood of accommodation and
the Mujahidin offered to let
withdrawing Soviet troops
pass unmolested if they did
not attack guerrillas and left
Afghanistan as promised by
February 15.

The rebels also offered to
release all Soviet prisoners in
•exchange for Mujahidin pris¬
oners, and described the three
rounds of talks as having been
held in a “calm atmosphere".

. Sources close to the talks
said that the Afghan rebels
had softened their objections
to an international peace con¬
ference and had promised to
study a Soviet proposal on the
issue. Their precondition was
that Islamic natrons, such as
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia,
should be allowed to
participate.

Western observers are am¬
azed at the Kremlin'S change
of heart in suddenly agreeing
to talks with the rebels, but
point out that it will take
much more flexibility by Mos¬
cow if a deal acceptable to the
Mujahidin is to be hammered
out within the next 10 weeks.
• HAVANA: President Cas¬
tro of Cuba, speaking four
days before the arrival of
president Gorbachov, said
superpower detente did not
ensure peace and security for
small Third World countries
ti&e Cuba (Reuter reports).

Speaking to an estimated
half a million people in
Revolution Square on Mon¬
day night. President Castro
urged the Cuban people
“never to lower their guard"
against imperialism.

From Michael Llanos
Buenos Aires

The Argentine colonel who led
the weekend mutiny of army
officers was takes la custody
to a military base yesterday,
but the rebds remained defi¬
ant, saying they did. not rec¬
ognise the Army Chief of Staff
and were orders from

their “commanders” — Colo¬
nel Mohamed AH
and a general who negotiated
with the rebels.

The Army said Colonel
Seiaddia was taken yesterday
morning from what had bees
the rebeTs stronghold to a
loyal Army base. It did not
say, though, whether he was
nailer arrest, stating oaly that
he would he “placed at die
disposal” of a mifitary judge.

What was dear was that
Colonel Sdneldia and otter
rebds were not taking orders
from the Army Chief of Staff;
General Dante Caridi, bat
from General Isidro Caceres,
who negotiated with the rebels
on Sunday to avoid a possible
dash between loyal troops and
the matinoas officers.

Rebel sources said that
ander the accord reached with
General Caceres, Colonel
Sefnefafin would accept foil
responsibility for the mutiny
and go before a military judge.

President Alfonsfa yes¬
terday acknowledged that a
“dialogue” between the rebels
and loyal forces bad taken
place, but insisted that the
rebels’ demands had been
rejected outright He had re¬
affirmed his support for Gen¬
eral Caridi on Sunday, hot did
not pnbtidy defend the Army
chief yesterday. It is increas¬
ingly likely the general will he
replaced before Christmas as
the rebds demand.

The rebels yesterday ex¬
pressed their defiance of Gen¬
eral Caridi in various ways.
Mayor Hugo Anvet who led
the occapathm of the Army
infantry base at Mercedes, 60
miles west of the capital,
yesterday said he refused to
take orders from General
Caridi.

“When a commander foils
to fight for the Army’s dignity
and honour, then he ceases to
he a commander,” he said.

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Soldiers injured
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Colonel Setnddra, right, hugging a fellow rebel officer at VOla MartelK base, Argentina.

Colonel Semekfin’s transfer
yesterday formalized what

rebels termed the “cessation of

operations’* at what had been
their stronghold, the Army
monitions base at Villa
MartelE, jest outside the
capitaL

Army sources said most of
the rebels were allowed to
r etai n to their original posts.
It was not dear whether these
men would be cleared, though
Colonel Seineldin was said to
have demanded that only he

and a few other officers be held

responsible for the mutiny,
Argentina’s third in less titan
two years.

The uprising marks the
most serious mffitary crisis
experienced by Seiior
Alfoasm’s A d minis tration in
five years of office. Army
officers with simil a r d em a n ds
mutinied during Easter week
of 1987 and last January.

At the start of the latest
mutiny political analysts ex¬
pected the ruling Radical
Party, behind in the presiden¬
tial race set to conclude in

May, to try to capitalize on the
rebellion by urging the public
to “defend democracy”.

But as the mutiny devel¬
oped, it was the opposition
that made the most of the
rebellion.

Opposition leaders woe
arguing that the pubHc had
lost confidence in the Govern¬
ment following statements by
Sefior Alfonsfn and Vice-
President Victor Martinez
that the mutiny had ended,,
when in feet the men remained
armed up to yesterday.

Moscow (AP) — Gangs yesterday wounded three soldiers
and a medical student in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, and a
curfew was imposed on new regions of Armenia where a
sharp rise in ethnic tension was reported.

Baku radio reported that in three districts of the city
“extremists and criminal elements provoked disorders on
massive scales and attempted to commit acts of looting and
other illegal actions" In a report monitored by the BBC, the
radio said soldiers on Monday fired warning shots to break
up the gangs, adding that “three servicemen and a student of
the Institute of Medicine were wounded”.

The Armenian capital, Yerevan, was reported to be quiet,
and the curfew that has been in effect for two weeks was
reduced by two hours. But tension in the areas with a mixed
Armenian-Azerbaijani population increased. “In regions of
the republic the situation is extraordinarily dangerous.
There have been deaths in the Kalinin, Masis and Gugark
region,” Sotsialisiicheskaya Indusiriya reported yesterday.

Soviet olive branch

Tokyo— Moscow's ambassador to Japan, Mr Nikolai
Soloviev, yesterday held out the possibility of some
improvement in his country's strained relations with Japan
when Mr Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet Foreign
Minister, visits Tokyo later this month (Joe Joseph writes).
He said, diplomatically, that both nations had to respect
each other's claims to disputed islands in the Sakhalin group
and work instead to improve relations.

Australian anger

Sydney — The Australian Government has described as
“totally unjustified” the decision by the Yugoslav Govern¬
ment to expel three diplomats in retaliation for the exp¬
ulsion from Sydney of Yugoslav consular staff after a
shooting incident (Christopher Morris writes). The Foreign
Minister, Senator Gareth Evans, said: “The Australian
Government will think long and hard when in due course
application is made to reopen the Sydney consulate.”

Ishaq Khan backed

fciampbad — Miss Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani Prime
Minister, yesterday reached agreement with her political
rivals to support the nomination of Mr Ghulam I s ha q Khan,
the acting President in the December 12 election to replace
the late President Zia for a five-year term (Hasan Akhtar
writes). Miss Bhutto's Pakistan People’s Party is to
withdraw its candidate, the retired General Tflcka Khan, the
party secretary-general. There are eight candidates.

General dies in crash

Madrid (AP) - Major-General W. S. Haipe, aged 51, the
commander of all US Air Force troops in the Mediterra¬
nean, was kilted when his single-seat F16 fighter-bomber
crashed during a routine training mission from Torrejon air
base near Madrid, an Air Force spokesman said yesterday.
An investigation is under way into the crash.

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Peres faces a fierce
party battle over
coalition with Likud

The 1300 members of the
Israeli Labour Party’s central
committee meet in Tel Aviv
tomorrow to vote on whether
the party should try again to
negotiate a place in a new
coalition led by Likud.

It threatens to be a long and
stormy meeting and it is far
from being a foregone conclu¬
sion that it will automatically
support the recommendation
from Mr Shimon Penes, the
party leader, to join a new
unity government in the in¬
terests of the country.

Mr Peres left an hour-long
meeting with President Her¬
zog yesterday morning saying
that he would try to overturn
last week's vote by the 120-
strong Labour Party bureau
against forming a coalition
with Likud. Mr Peres said he
was' confident be could carry
the day before the much larger
central committee.

However, President Herzog
yesterday also called in Mr
Uzi Baram, Labour’s sec¬
retary-general, and was given
a different answer.

Mr Baram has said ever
since it became clear that the
November 1 elections had
ended in stalemate that Lab¬
our should go into opposition

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From Ian Murray, Jernsalem

by involvement in a coalition.
After his meeting with the
President he said that he
would support a coalition with
Likud but only if it were
formed specifically to bring in
electoral reform and to block
all legislation proposed by the
religious parties.

This is far more restrictive
than anything suggested yet by
Mr Peres although it has a
wide measure of support in
the Labour Party.

If Mr Peres wins a majority
at tomorrow’s meeting to re¬
open negotiations-with Likud
he will begin by insisting that
promises already made to the
religious parties must be
shelved and that there should
be a moratorium on any
attempt to amend the law
defining who is a Jew.

Mr Fares said yesterday that
the promises made so far to
the religious groups by Mr
Yitzhak. Shamir, the Likud
leader, would cost hundreds of
millions of dollars at a time
when the defence budget was
in urgent need of extra money.

The Ministry of Defence
has just told the Government
that it needs $4 billion (£2.1
billion) next year if it is to
carry out the plan it has
worked on for the past two

years to convert the Army into
a smaller but better equipped
force. The budget would need
to be slashed drastically if
money had to be found for
religious institutions.

This was one reason why
the President called yet again
for a unity government be¬
tween Likud and Labour when
he granted Mr Shamir another
three weeks to try to form a
government.

The negotiations so far were
“shameful and dangerous” the
President said. He reported
“an avalanche” of appeals
expressing “growing dismay"
at the way the large parties
were trying to buy the support
of the small parties.

Mr Ebud Oimeit, a Likud
MP, said yesterday that his
party faced enormous prob¬
lems if it tried to settle
irreconcilable differences with
religious parties. Too many
Likud members are prepared
to vote against religious leg¬
islation for Mr Shamir to be
able to give guarantees and he
could split Likud if he tries to
force the issue.

Mr Shamir is waiting until
be knows the outcome of
tomorrow’s Labour meeting
before pressing ahead with
coalition negotiations.

Arafat’s Stockholm welcome angers Israel

From Christopher Mosey
Stockholm

A surprise visit to Stockholm
yesterday by Mr Yasar
Arafat, chairman of the Pal¬
estine Liberation Organiza¬
tion, for talks with repre¬
sentatives of the American
Jewish community aimed at
furthering the Middle East
peace process, has grossed
finy In Israel.

Stockholm’s Ambassador in
Tel Am, Mr Mats Bergqvist,
was summoned to the Foreign
Ministry and informed of the
Israeli Government's “dis¬
may” over the Swedish
initiative.

Mr Arafat was given the
sort of red carpet reception
usually resaved for visiting
heads of stale.

He was welcomed at die
airport when be flew in from
Cairo by the Foreign Minister,
Mr Sten Andersson. He was
housed at the Government's
official residence for visiting
dignatories and royalty, a
snow-decked castle on the
outskirts of Stockholm. The
Swedish Prime Minister, Mr
Ingvar Carbsoo, cut short an
official visit to Paris to fly
bade for talks with him.

The reception be was given
invoked Israeli fears that Swe¬
den might be on the verge of
recognizing the reoentiy-pro-
churned Palestinian state.

Bat the Swedish Foreign
Min^ iy e m phasized that the
main purpose of the visit was
to allow Mr Arafat to meet the
five-person US Jewish delega¬
tion on neutral ground.

It said there was no question
as yet of Sweden recognizing

Warm greeting in the snow for Mr Arafat from Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Mr Sten Andersson.

cratic Party hailed it as a
diplomatic triumph.

any state which did not control
its own territory.

Mr Arafat's visit was ar¬
ranged in a series of clandes¬
tine meetings held over the
past year between Swedish
diplomats, PLO represen¬

tatives and members of the
Intern a tio n al Centre for Peace
in the Middle East, a little-
known liberal-oriented Jewish
organization working in both
the United States and ZsraeL
Sweden's rating Social Demo-

But doubts were cast by
Jewish leaders as to its effi¬
cacy in aiding the cause of
Middle Eastern peace. Mr Per
Ahfmark, a leading light in

Sweden's Jewish community
and a former chairman of the
Liberal Party-, speaking on
Swedish Radio poured scorn
on the meeting, accusing Mr
Andersson of superficiality.

He said Mr Arafat would be
truly welcome in Sweden only
when he renounced terrorism
and recognized Israel's right
to exist within secure borders.

The Jewish delegation Is led
by Mrs Rita Hauser.«lawyer
who heads the US ana of the
International Centre for Peace
in the Middle East, is a
member of the Council of
Foreign Relations and is a
dose friend of Israel's labour
leader and former Prime Min¬
ister. Mr Shimon Peres.

Mr Andersson meanwhile
appears to have modified his
stance on (be Palestinian issae
considerably.

Only one week after conde¬
mning Israeli oppression in
the occupied territories at a
Stockholm rally to express
solidarity with the Palestinian
people, Mr Andersson made a
speech at the weekend that
was markedly more concil¬
iatory, expressing the Swedish
Government's unabated sup¬
port for IsraeL “Sweden has
for 40 years supported Israel’s
right to exist and tire in peace.
That support will continue.”
he pledged.

Last nigfat a ballet-proof,
plexi-glass cage was being
built over the grave of the
assasinaled Swedish Prime
Minister, Olof Palme, In a
churchyard in central Stock¬
holm where Mr Arafat will lay
a wreath today before flying to
PLO headquarters in Tunis.

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Greek refusal to
extradite Arab
fuels row in EEC

From Mario Modiano, Athens

Greece turned down an Italian* ity in favour of freedom and
request yesterday for the therefore not acts of
extradition of an Arab wanted
for the 1982 bombing of the
Rome synagogue because, it
said, his actions were in the
context of the Palestinian
struggle for freedom. A boy
aged two was killed in the
grenade attack and 34 people
were injured.

Abdel Osama al-Zomor,
aged 27. identified by Western
intelligence as a member of
the Abu Nidal terrorist
organization, was deported
eariy yesterday. A Greek gov¬
ernment spokesman said be
had been allowed to go to “a
country of his choice” but he
refused to name it.

The Greek move adds a new
twist to the raging controversy
over the extradition of terror¬
ist suspects that is expected to
dominate discussions when
the Trevi Group. Europe's
counter-terrorism watchdog,
meets at ministerial level in
Athens tomorrow and on
Friday.

Mr Douglas Hand, the
Home Secretary, is expected
to press Britain's European
partners for concrete co-op¬
eration in anti-terrorist action
in the wake of the Anglo-
Bdgian-Irish row over the
extradition of Father Patrick
Ryan, wanted in Britain on
terrorism-linked charges.

The Belgians, although visi¬
bly miffed by Mrs Thatcher’s
attack in Rhodes, are propos¬
ing a European agreement to
standardize extradition proce¬
dures. Diplomats said the
European ministers will cer¬
tainly seek explanations from
the Greeks on their reasons for
denying Italy's extradition
request.

Mr Vasscr Rotis, the Greek
Justice Minister, caused a
sensation among Western em¬
bassies here when he made
public his decision which set
aside two previous court rul¬
ings recommending Al-
Zoraor’s extradition to Italy. -
The decision identified a
man, a Jordanian passport
holder, as “Palestinian by
nationality” which implied
indirect recognition of-
Palestinian statehood The
minister told reporters: “The
Palestinians now have or are
about to have their own
government and thing * are
different from what they were
three to four years ago since
they formally renounced
terrorism.”

The minister’s decision
read: ^The actions for which
extradition is requested were
in the context of the struggle to
regain the independence of his
homeland, constituting activ-

terronsm.

The Greek decision co¬
incided with intelligence re¬
ports that the Abu Nidal group
and Ahmed fibril's Popular
Front for die Liberation of
Palestine, General Command,:
may be planning a joint
operation for the first time to
take hostages and exchange
them for detained terrorists.’
France, West Germany and
Greece are known to have •
Arab terrorists in custody.

Al-Zomor was arrested at
the Greek-Turkish border in
1982. one month after the -
Rome attack. He was drivings
car loaded with 1321b of
explosives. After serving two-'
thirds of a 20-month prison
sentence, the Greeks recom¬
mended his extradition to
Italy.

Just as Italian police officers
flew to Athens to escort him
back to Rome, the Greek
Justice Ministry rescinded the
order, arguing that Al-Zomor
would be put on trial for
instigating a bomb attack

Beirut (AP)—Mr Dino ScioIIi. '
the Swiss Ambassador to Leb¬
anon, urged an estimated 200
remaining Swiss nationals to
leave as foar more Red Cross
delegates flew out yesterday,
bringing to eight the number of
Swiss members of the relief
group who have left Lebanon
since the abduction Mr Peter
Winkler, a colleague, on
November 17, _

aga in st the Jordanian airline’s
Athens office, while he was in
jaiL

He was eventually acquitted
of die charge, but promptly
put on trial for keeping a knife
in his prison celL Sentenced to
two years’ imprisonment, he
was to have been released later
this week after serving two-
thirds of his time.

The Al-Zomor case is
bound to cause the US con¬
cern since it could set
precedent for the extradition
of Mohammed Rashid, aged
35, who is wanted for bomb
attacks against passenger
aircraft.

The Greek Supreme Court
demanded last month all de¬
tailed evidence against Rashid
before making up its mind on
the extradition request. The
final decision, however, still
rests with the Minister of
Justice.

Significantly, Mr Rashid’s
defence was that he was a
Palestinian freedom fighter,
and therefore not subject to
the provisions of the Greek-'
US extradition treaty.

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OVERSEAS NEWS

9

Aftermath of the Bangladesh cyclone

Stricken fishermen press
for better storm protection

From Edward Gorman, Meherafi Char, southern Bangledesh

The fishermen of this strip of
sand on the edge of the Bay of
Bengal greeted with a certain
scepticism the arrival of Mr
Muniruz Zanan, Secretary for
Relief in President Ershad’s
Government.

After facing head-on what
they claim was the worst
cyclone in the country's his¬
tory which they say swept
4,000 of their fellows to their
deaths* they; fed* perhaps
rightly, it is time the Govern¬
ment took effective measures
to prevent another calamity.

Mr Zanan, stepping down
from the Air Force helicopter
on to the bald sand where just
a week ago 2.000 fishermen's
huts stood in neat rows, did
his best to reassure the
bronzed and gnarled men that
help was on its way.

He said a “so-called cydone
shelter*' would be btiilL Pro¬
vided the fishermen's co-op¬
erative came up with suitable
proposals, credit facilities
would be made available to
help overcome the loss of
thousands of pounds worth of
fish, drying on wooden stakes
when the cydone struck.

There would also be pro¬
vision, he said, of fresh drink¬
ing water brought down in
barges from Khulna, 40 miles

north of herel This would help
the fishermen while salinity
levels, in fresh water ponds
engulfed by the tidal surge,
slowly returned to normal
More as a gesture of solidar¬
ity than of effective assistance,
Mr Zanan was also able to
present the fishermen of'
Meherali Char (Island) with
boxes of dried dates, rice and
biscuits. “Food is not nee¬
ded*” be saidgesturing at fresh
catches of fish gparVtHng in
silvery rows on new drying

you see will be the last. We
will get nothing more. We
have very many problems and
we need the shelters to save
our fishermen from
drowning.”

Samin is from Pirojpur,
about 60 miles to the north¬
east He is one of 12,000 men
who spend the four months of
the winter fishing season on
this remote island which rises
only a few feet above sea level
and consists almost entirely of
dense mangrove swamp — the

Dhaka - lord Glenarthnr, Minister of State at the Foreign
Office, last night ended a three-day official visit to Bangladesh
by announcing a £200,000 grant to voluntary agencies to help
combat the effects of cydone damage (Edward Gorman writes).

The British Govenneat has already provided around £25
million in cash; food and commodity aid for emergency relief
projects this year after severe flooding in Angnst and September
inundated about 70 per cent of the country.

frames. “They have already
managed; they are looking
after themselves.”

But for men like Samin,
aged 32, the articulate man¬
ager of the Saudi-Bangja Fish
Export Company, this was
dearly too little too late.

“The Government is just
doing simple formalities,” he
explained in English, puffing
on a filtered cigarette through
a clenched fisL “These goods.

home of spotted deer and
Royal Bengal tigers.

On the night of the storm he
said most of the men, alerted
by warnings on the radio, ran
into the swamp. Many who
drowned were out fishing at
the time. “We collected many
dead bodies and buried them
by the shore-side,” he ex¬
plained. “Just before you ar¬
rived we found four more, but
when we saw the helicopters,

Christmas in Egyptian jail

Cairo court delays
British woman’s
drug case appeal

From Christopher Walker, Cairo

Mrs Maureen Paleschi, a
British woman saving a 25-
rear sentence for drag smug¬
gling, mil spend Christmas in
til overcrowded Egyptian
prison dormitory with more
han 70 other female prisoners
ifiter a decision yesterday by
Egypt's highest coart to defer
ratfi February 7 a ruling on
wr appeal

Mrs Faleschi, aged 50 and a
tivorced mother of two, was
tot in Cairo’s Court of
Cassation to bear the outcome
if the appeal hunched by her
awyer in February, the month
Iter she received a 25-year
enfence for smuggling heroin
rith a street value of more
ban £2 miDftm inside a dee-
native elephant.

Many prominent members
if the British community here
ire convinced of her inno¬
cence, and Western sources
aid that the deferment of toe
ippeal judgement would in-
xease pressure on the British
md Egyptian governments to
mnplete negotiations for a
nisooer repatriation pact.

Dr Raoaf MaMi, a leading
Egyptian lawyer, tried to win
or Mrs Paleschi a retrial on
he premise that the lower
amt had erred in implement-
ng provisions of the law. If be
s successful when the jndge-
nent is handed down Mrs
Paleschi from Yarm* near
Darlington, will be permitted
tail but will have to stay in
Dura for the new proceedings.

He argued in court (hat
jvidence by the prime prosecu¬
tion witness, Mr Tarek Abu
Seid, a narcotics officer, cast
toubt on the verdict He
jaiined that Mr Abo Zeid did
rat say that Mrs Faleschi
tnew the contents of the
itephant He also said that the
tarcotics officer testified that
here was a group of Egyptian
nen who used and exploited
Sritish women to smuggle
fangs into Egypt

At her trial before the lower
tribunal she told the three
judges that her former friend
md co-defendant Mr Mnh-
imizzad Niati (who also re¬
tired a 25-year sentence

along with a second Egyptian
mao) had given her the
wssiea elephant as a gift
during a holiday in Pakistan.
9m had no idea it contained
heroin, and be denied that he
had given her toe elephant

Her harrowing prison life in

the notorious Qanatir jafl,
north of Cairo, was outlined
for the first time yesterday by
the Very Rev Phffip Cousins,
the Anglican Provost of Cai¬
ro's All Saints' Cathedral
who has been alternating visits
to her with toe British Consul

“She Is toe only European
in a dormitory of between 70
and 80 women* most of whom
speak no English. They have
very little privacy beyond a
curtain around their beds,”
Mr Cousins explained. “They
are not even permitted to do
work like embroidery or
needlework, so she spends
much of her time reading

books — mostly retigiow ones

— soit by well-wishers in
Britain.”

Mrs MeschTs conviction
caused a stir at (he time
because so many of those dose
to the trial m Cairo, including
memb ers of the British Em¬
bassy, had been privately con¬
vinced that she would be found
not guilty. A charge against
her sister Marion, then aged
42, was dropped.

“The prison is hopelessly
overcrowded, and in matters
tike hygiene does net live np to
Western standards, but Mis
Pakschi is bearing her ordeal
with great dignity and resour¬
cefulness,” Mr Cousins said.
“She is very uncomplaining,
very co-operative and very
good with toe other prisoners
—who also appear mostly to be
on drags charges. She has to
wear a prison uniform of a
white gfOabeya?

He added: “Mrs Paleschi
strongly protests her inno¬
cence and is very convincing in
her statements. If ha lawyer
succeeds in winning her the

retrial that all of ns are hoping
for, 1 have made arrange ments
for ha to come and live with
me and my wife while it takes
place.”

Kenyan editor held

bi (Renta) - Mr Peter Kaxeithi, the editor of Kenya’s
outspoken political magazine, the Financial Review, was
ed by plain-clothes police .yesterday, the magazine
cd. No reason was given for his arrest but police said thai
were taking him to the headquarters of the Criminal

jSpbm toe v^Presktem, recently ““used toe

\cieU Review of “working to denigrate the good
nment of this nation”.

me sit-in Soldiers die

(AFP) - Angry pas-
i took over a Boeing
■ eight hours in protest
cancellation of their
a Chonqing,

Ankara — Eight soldiers were
killed when an army patrol
was ambushed by Kurdish
separatists in south-eastern
Turkey.

e channel Train deaths

bourg (Reuter) - A
b channel has been
up by Luxembourg’s
Europecnne des Sat-
jays before the launch
sira satellite.

>els killed

» (Renter) — Indian
killed 13 rebels after
guerrillas ambushed
i northern Sri Lanka.

Bulawayo (At) - Six people
died and three were injured
when an ammunition train
crashed into a gully in south¬
ern Zimbabwe.

Maid kidnap

Kortrijk (AP) — Two armed
men who abducted the maid
of a Belgian businessman
demanded 200 million francs
(£3 million) in ransom.

nuiuiunvo —— '

iber crash Judges strike

__i-n___\ _ A n**im

gton (Renter) - Eight
embers survived after
omber crashed near a
\n Air Force base.

Lisbon (Reiter) — A nation¬
wide strike by Portuguese
judges over pay, the fi rst in
history, has halted court cases.

we derided to wait for our
distinguished visitors and
bury them later."

Samin agrees that even at
the best of times, life on
Meherali Char is precarious,
but in one of the world's
poorest countries, the lure of
good money for exported
dried lataka fish is hard to
resist “We know it is dan¬
gerous. But these men have no
other source of income,” he
said.

The official death toll for
the cyclone remains below
2,000 but officials in Dhaka
yesterday spoke of at least
12,000 still missing in this
area, the worst-hit extreme
south-west of the country. A
week after the storm, most of
these most now be presumed
dead. Forestry expats have
also reported a heavy toll
among wildlife in toe storm,
confirming the death of nine
tigers in the swamps, an
estimated 13,000 deer and a
collective total of 2,000 wild
boars, baboons and monkeys.

During the hour-long flight
from the capital we passed
several sandpits and remote
beaches on the edges of the
swamp where bodies of fisher¬
men* blackened and stiff, had
beat washed ashore.

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Miss Jessica Hahn in emotional mood in Phoenix* Arizona: “This is where it ends for me.”

n sex srmnrfal involving Mr
Jim Bakker, bead of toe
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ministry, says she has talked
enough about the affair.

“This is where it ends for
me. I refuse to be a slave to
c ja this story any longer,” she
gaid in an emotional rambling
statement in Phoenix, Ari-
zona, after toe indictment of
Mr Rakkw and a former aide,
'fP-'P* Mr Richard Dortch.

The two are accused of
conspiring to maintain their
“lavish and extravagant life-
V styles” by cheating investors
ont of millions of dollars in •
holiday partnerships at the
ministry’s Heritage Village
USA resort.

Mr Babko's troubles began
in March, 1987, when he
resigned from the ministry
amid disclosures that he
committed adultery with Miss
Hahn and paid to silence ha.
Miss Hahn received $3&3»000
(about £195,000) in ministry
money. She now contends that
she was raped.

Miss Hahn, who now works
as a disc jockey in Phoenix,
said the indictments vin¬
dicated ha account of what
went on in the ministry, where
cash donations were handled
under the precept of “a dollar
for God and a dollar for those
doing the counting”.

She said tearfully that she
had lost ha family since the
affair became public. “I’ve not
seen them in a year,” she said.

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‘donors’ left bags
of cash in his office

From Christopher Morris, Sydney

Sir Joh Bjdke-Petersen admit¬
ted to the Royal Commission
into police corruption that,
while he was Premier of
Queensland, anonymous do¬
nors left bags stuffed with tens
of thousands of dollars in cash
in his office.

He also admitted under
cross examination yesterday
that he had used the Special
Branch to investigate the
background of a political
opponent he regarded as a
threat.

Sir Joh, on his third day in
the witness box at the com¬
mission inquiry in Brisbane,
claimed dial he and his per¬
sonal stafflmew nothing about
the sources of the $50,000
(£22,700) and $60,000 cash
donations left at his office.
The money was part of more
than $550,000 in political
donations be was questioned
about

He denied that any dona¬
tions — to the Queensland
National Party or to a private
political fund set up by his
aides — led to political fa¬
vours, such as awarding valu¬
able public works contracts.

Sir Joh said the donations
were probably taken to his
office by someone “who left
the money in a bag and didn't
tell me what it was at the time.
Nobody comes in and says
Tve got $50,000'. I do not sit
at the door waiting for people
to come in with funds.”

The incredulous Commis¬

sioner, Mr Tony Fitzgerald,
QC replied: “Obviously you
don't have to.”

The inquiry was told a “pass
the parcel" system involving
bags of cash handed over to
Queensland National Party
workers netted the party hun¬
dreds of thousands of dollars
while Sir Joh was in office.

Sir Joh also received a
$100,000 donation handed
over in a bag by a Hoag Kong
b usinessman

Asked by Mr Fitzgerald if it
was unusual for large sums of
money to be handed over as
cash donations. Sir Joh re¬
plied: “No sir, not at alL”

Of his conversation with the
Hong Kong businessman, Sir
Joh added: “He said like

everybody else said, 'We want
to help the party, we're in¬
terested in the way you
operate'.”

The political opponent the
former Premier had asked the
' Special Branch to investigate
was Mr Angus Jones, now the
leader of Queensland’s liberal
Party.

According to a Special
Branch detective whose name
was not revealed. Sir Joh
wanted the background of Mr
Innes thoroughly investigated

Sr Joh: Asked the Special

Branch to investigate rival.

“The Premier regarded In¬
nes as a young Turk and his
greatest political threat,” the
detective said. “The instruc¬
tion required me to find
something against Innes.”

In reply. Sir Joh claimed
that he had never regarded Mr
Innes as any sort of a threat
and be could not recall asking
the Special Branch to make
inquiries.

But after repeated question¬
ing Sir Joh indicated that he
might have asked for some
checks to be made. “There was
something in his background
that might have been required
to know about,” he said.

The Commissioner com¬
mented: “It is not much of a
basis to get the Special Branch
to investigate.”

The investigations, the in¬
quiry was told yesterday, had
found nothing improper in Mr
Innes's background.

The commission inquiry
continues today.

Philippine troops scour remote islands

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Philippine government troops
rounding up the people of a
remote Tillage in their search
for seven soldiers held pris¬
oner in Quezon p r ovince, 80
miles south-east of the capkaL
Brigadier-General Alejand¬
ro Gouda, the military com¬
mander for southern Luzon,
said that helicopter-borne
troops had killed at least 15
guerillas belonging to the

New People’s Army on Mon¬
day, including the chief of a
village on Kaloticot island
whom he identified as a rebel
(AP reports).

Troops had also seized three
boats, which General Galido
churned were ferrying rice and
weapons to the guerrillas.

Meanwhile, suspected com¬
munist rebels shot two soldiers
to death near Manila, the

military authorities said. Con¬
stable William Sabnay and
Sergeant Rodrigo Gray had
been sitting in a Jeep in the
suburb of Mnntinhipa when
two men had walked up and
opened fire.

Colonel Victor Ttangco said
a preliminary investigation in¬
dicated the killers were part of
a New People's Army assas¬
sination team, known here as

“sparrow units”. He said that
captured rebel documents in¬
dicated that the guerrillas
woo planning to step up
attacks in the Manila area in
the next few weeks in an effort
to boost morale after the
arrests of rebel leaders.

More than 100 police and
soldiers in Manila are believed
to have been killed by “spar¬
row units” since last year.

Paris transport strike misery threatens to derail Socialists

From Philip Jacobson
Paris

As millions of commuters in and
around Paris prepare for another
miserable journey to work, there is
growing discontent over the Social¬
ist Government’s handling of the
public transport strikes crippling
the capital.

With little prospect of an im¬
minent breakthrough in the nego¬
tiations that were renewed yest¬
erday, and still more disruptions in
the pipeline, the feeling of frustra¬
tion generated by 10 days of chaos
is immense.

So for, the most visible reaction
is the motion of censure which M
Michel Rocard trill face in the

National Assembly later this week.
The besieged Prime Minister
should survive that, but he must
now accept that his minority
administration has little chance of
staggering from one parliamentary
crisis to another for its full five
years in office.

If the splintered forces of the
right cannot achieve M Rocard’s
downfall unaided, the sharp and
continuing decline in his personal
standing in the country at large
may be enough to tip the scales.

Two opinion polls taken since
the start of public sector strikes in
Paris and several provincial cities
suggest that the Government's
determined effort to pin the entire

blame on the Communist Party
and its trade union allies has left a
good many of the French un¬
convinced that they are the only
villains of the piece. Without
doubt, the pro-Co mmimist CGT
union jumped at the chance to
return to the labour front line.

But the latest rash of strikes owes
more to worries about pay, work¬
ing conditions and a keen sense of
bring undervalued by society than
the machinations of the hard left

Although the Communists are
understandably eager to exploit the
situation by forcing a ballot-box
affiance on the Socialists before
France’s municipal elections next
March, their direct faiflimnne over

the rank-and-file works commit¬
tees disrupting Paris appears to be

limited.

In any case, while a deal with the
for left could provide M Rocard’s
Government with something res¬
embling a secure parliamentary
majority, neither the Prime Min¬
ister or President Mitterrand have
any appetite for such a coalition.

Voters who edged the Socialists
back into power last June were
promised bold new ideas, a trans¬
formation of their lives, not yet
another variation on the stagnant
theme of French political acc¬
ommodation.

It wouM be highly instructive for
M Rocard to ride alongside fellow

citizens in one of the military
convoys that assemble in the
suburbs at first light The novelty
of jolting to work in draughty army
lorries has worn off to be replaced
by growing indignation at what is
seen as weak and indecisive
leeadership.

In a nation of confirmed
grognards (grumblers) the Prime
Minister’s little jaunt die other day
in the cockpit of a Mirage fighter
high above the troubled capital,
received short shrift.

“They should have ejected him
over the Seine,” snapped one rain-
drenched traveller. “Or fired him
into space,” suggested another.

As for President Mitterrand,

whose backing for the Prime
Minister Iras often appeared less
than wholehearted, be recently
took time off from foreign trips and
great affairs of state to inform the
nation that he approved of M
Rocard’s “firmness” towards the
strikers.

There could be better weeks for a
President accused of Olympian
detatchment from the common
herd to have a diary that whisks
him off on a state visit to
Czechoslovakia immediately after
receiving, in no particular order,
three former prime ministers from
abroad, two serving prime Min¬
isters, a trio of presidents and the
King of Spain.

Santa
demands
new pay
clause

From Our Correspondent
Sydney

The spirit of goodwill was
distinctly absent in Sydney
yesterday when Santa uaus
took his employers to court
claiming he was underpaid.

Santa saw red and de¬
manded a new clause in his
contract when he discovered
that helpers in his grotto were
getting paid more than twice
as much as him.

Now there is even talk of a
Santa strike this Christmas in
Australia because at the Syd¬
ney department store where
he works, be is paid £5.50 an
hour compared with the £12
an hour for his assistants, the
elves, dwarfs and jugglers.

The Santas are paid the
same rate as a shop assistant,
while their helpers get paid
more as members of the
Actors Equity union.

Santa yesterday went to the
Industrial Commission to de¬
mand more, a dramatic role
reversal for someone who
spends his days at this time of
the year hearing lots of claims
from young children.

“1 found out that the elves,
the dwarfs and the jugglers all
got paid considerably more
than me," he complained.

Actors Equity claimed that
department store Santas were
actors and could not be classi¬
fied as shop assistants because
they did not sell anything.

“It is seen as unethical for
any Santa to promote goods
sold in the store" said Equity’s
industrial officer, Ms Rocque
Reynolds.

“Basically he has to get into
a costume and perform. Stores
take advantage of the season
of goodwill by making Santas
work for a pittance. Even a
performing dog is paid more.

“Most Santas have com¬
pleted acting courses and are
required to audition with
hearty: 'Ho, ho. hos’.”

For his part Santa — other¬
wise Mr Robert Kleiner, a 29-
year-old actor — insisted he
did a professional job and
should be paid the proper rate.

He also claimed that the
poor pay had not always
attracted the right calibre of
person. Some of his fellow
Santas “have been known to
walk out of a grotto and visit
the wine-tasting section”, he
said. The bearing continues.

ADVERTISEMENT

Tibetan leader sacked over unrest

Peking (Renter) — China has
disnissed its Communist Par¬
ty leader in the troubled region
of Tibet and tightened security
to prevent monks from staging
fresh anti-Chinese protests,
Western sources said
yesterday.

Nevertheless, monks and
hundreds of pOgrims filled
Lhasa's main square outside
Tibet's holiest shrine on Sat¬
urday night and police did not
intervene, although the Prayer
of Truth chanted by the crowd
contained lines entreating the
“protectors of Tibet to drive
the barbarians of the east from
the land of the snows”.

The security dampdown
started on November 23 dur¬
ing a festival for Lhasa'S
protector goddess, the symbol
for many Tibetans if their
desire for independence from
China. At about the same
time, Tibet's Communist Par¬
ty leader, Mir Wo Jinghua,
was recalled to Peking and

dismissed for failing to stop
unrest in Lhasa, the sources
reported from the regional
capital.

A party spokeswoman m
Peking raid that Mr Hh
J intao, former party leader in
Guizhou province, had been
appointed tire new Communist
Party leader of Tibet last
Thursday. She declined com¬
ment on what had happened to
Mr Wu, who headed tire party
in Tibet since 1985.

Protests against Peking's
rule over the poor Himalayan
region erupted in October last
year, giving rise to some of the
bloodiest nots dace the failure
of a rebellion in 1959 forced
Tibet's spiritual leader, tire
Dalai Lama, to flee across the
border to India. Monks
dashed with police again last
March and an unknown num¬
ber of people were killed.

Residents in Lhasa said tire
city b tense again, with armed
police coding tire Jokang

Temple, questioning people
and checking identity papas.

Police with automatic weap¬
ons had also recently toured
the main streets on motorbikes
with sidecars, and Tibetans
trying to gather in Lhasa's
Barkhor Square had been told
to move on. Foreign tourists
had their passports checked
and hotel rooms searched, the
sources said.

In a show of police strength
last Wednesday, about 40
criminals were paraded
throngh the streets in a convoy
of trucks. The Western
sources quoted informed Tib¬
etans as raying that more than
100 political prisoners, includ¬
ing at least 30 monks and
nuns, had been taken from
prisons inside Tibet to other
areas of China. Chinese of¬
ficials have said in recent
months that only 20 or so
Tibetans were being detained
in connection with separatist
protests. Despite tire damp-

down, posters calling for an
mid to Chinese rale continue to
appear in Lhasa's main
square.

Western diplomats, while
uncertain what policy changes
Tibet's new party leader would
bring, noted that Mr Hh, aged
46, was relatively young and
had experience in Guizhou and
Gansu provinces, both poor
areas Inhabited by minority
peoples.

“The policy now is to soak
tire place with police and
infiltrate everything,” one
Weston diplomat said. Oth¬
ers believe the real power in
Tibet lay of late in the hands of
Mr Wu’S deputy, Mr Mb
R ubai, who recently visited tire
US and mo State Department
Officials.

Chinese troops took control
of Tibet in tire 1950s. Peking
says it has ruled the region,
now home to two million
people, for centuries and will
never gjre it independence.

SKi'-;r

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Christmas is a-coming
The Return Visit

in.....

my

day’s activities was to be Fortnum & Mason, and that following my recent
reintroduction to the store I was beginning to feel like one of the family.

The pleasant welcoming and adaptable way that the staff meets the needs of
its customer as an individual is what has taken me. It is still a family store,
and it has that warmth about it.

The windows are as usual
fantastic, and here I now
see the full picture of what
was just a dream depicted
on the cover of the
Christmas Catalogue
issued earlier in the year.

Winners for two suc¬
cess! ve years of the In tema-
tional Display Award it is
obvious they are trying for
the hat trick. They would
receive my vote for pure
imagination.

Once inside, my firs t task
is to place my order for the
own-label prize-winning
Champagne, quality for
price I give it my personal
award.

That accomplished, I
return to the main purpose
of my visit today, I must
finalise my Christmas
shopping.

You may wonder why I
like to finish before
December is barely begun.
The answer is manifold.
For example the shops are
less crowded and the
selection at its best in
November and early
December. The crash builds

up and the selection reduces
on a double exponential,
and I, for one, prefer to be
comfortable ana organised.

First stop Stationery
Third Floor, my final
selection of Christmas
Cards, a few specials for
close friends, some
paper and ribbon for
wrapping purchases and
then for a few novelties
and stocking fillers.

Triangular-shaped play¬
ing cards catch my
attention, only £8.95 and
decidedly m ore comfortable
and easy to use. 1 don't
know if they will replace
regular shapes but they
deserve to.

A battery-operated book
tight that clips onto the
book you are reading,
minimising discomfort for
a sleeping partner, or for
younger readers obviating
the need to climb under the
duvet with a pocket torch if
you are told to go to sleep
just when you reach a vital

- 1 of the plot's action.

£5.95.

More serious matters
on the Second Floor, a
special lady in my life
has indicated that a good
quality jewellery box
would be an asset, and

until now I have seen the

same bland, and often
poorly finished articles
for sale. Not so here, for I
am faced with a selection of
twenty or more different
boxes, in leather, suede,
wood, and lizard all with
different emphasis. I settle
for one in blue suede at
£650.

A good range of photo
frames in wood, velvet,
enamel, leather and silver
plate solve yet another
outstanding problem -
things are. going well;
I will drop down to the
Lower Ground Floor for
my final items.

A luxury bed tray with
a removable tray and
compartments on the side,
plus a fully adjustable
reading rest, for a couple 1
know who take it in turns to
spoil each other with
breakfast in bed and also
one of those “combo” ideas
that Fortnum & Mason do
so welL A wicker basket,
decorated with dried
flowers, and containing a
famous Fortnum & Mason
Christmas Pudding and
basin with a spice jar
included, there is both
immediate pleasure and
after use contained in the
one gift

For collector friends a
Crown Derby Walrus Paper¬
weight at £47.00 and a
Spode “Armada" plate for
another at £69.95.

As a greater period
of the Victorian era
falls into the mystical
100 years of age, that
traditionally allows
items to be referred
to as “Antique”, so
the fashion pendulum
swings and a new regard
begins to grow for such
bijouterie. In the Precious
Jewellery selection there is
a gentle emphasis on
“Estate Jewellery” which
otherwise translates as

“old jewellery possibly
antique”.

An exquisite brooch,
alternating as a pendant in
15ct gold with peridot and
natural pearls is an
estimated 90 years old and
priced at £950, whilst a
ring also in 15ct gold with
an orange blossom motif is
estimated 120 years old -
priced at£240. A memorial
brooch, dated 1844. in gold
and black enamel with
onyx cameo surrounded by
natural pearls, is both
striking and good value at
only £775.

Copy Victorian Albert
chains in 9ct gold having
graduated links from which
one may hang a revolving
cornelian and bloodstone
seal, indicates the strength¬
ening fashion trend.

My list almost complete I
must confess that when it
comes to my younger
nephews and nieces I am
always at a total loss to
know what to choose.

My dilemma iB in thelack
of knowledge of what they
may already own, and what

is currently being planned
for them.

Fortnum & Mason to
the rescue, they have a
very adaptable Gift
Token scheme that can
be osed anywhere in the
store.

Suppose I organise the
experience I was privileged
to receive when I was young
- a Splendid ice cream
extravaganza in the
Fountain Restaurant with
Gift Vouchers to cover
the cost

From left to right: Victorian Bracelet £1,095. Victorian Brooch/Pendant £950.
Albert Chain £495. Attached Revolving ComelianfBloodstone Seal£405.
15ct Gold Victorian Ring £598. Victorian Dance Pencil £219.

Victorian Wedding Ring l8ct Gold £240. Victorian Memorial Brooch 2844 £775.

I am willing to place odds
that no one will think of
that, and if perchance they
have, the children will be
doubly blessed!

Whilst buying the
vouchers in the Recep¬
tion area I am intro¬
duced to the Fortnum &
Mason Credit Account,
again fully optional and,
would you believe,
charging only VM per
month on any outstand¬
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elect not to pay in full at
the end of the month,
t'or the accountancy
that works out
at 19.6% APR.

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December 6 1988

PARLIAMENT

Angry Kinnock attacks

Belgians and Thatcher

Mr Neil Kinnock, Leader
of the Opposition, criti¬
cized the Belgian Cabinet
for political evasion in
refusing the extradition of
Father Patrick Ryan to
Britain, but accused the
Prime Minister of turning
confusion into chaos by
her tantrums.

He was commenting on a
statement by the Prime Minister
on the Rhodes summit, which,
he said, would come to be.
known as the Ryan summit

Mrs Thatcher replied that the
facts had spoken for themselves.

“That was the trouble. When
we made this perfectly dear, 1
hope that roost people who
really believe in fighting terror¬
ism were on our side."

. In her statement, Mrs That¬
cher said that about half the
measures for the single market
were now agreed. Priorities for
the next stage would include
banking and financial services
and public procurement, which
were of interest to the United
Kingdom.

It was widely recognized that
the best way to meet social
needs and to advance living
standards was through extra
economic growth which the
single market would generate.

In bilateral meetings with the
Prime Ministers of Belgium and
the Irish Republic she had made
dear the extent to which people
in Britain “felt let down” by the
Belgian Government’s treat¬
ment of the recent extradition
request and the delay by the
Irish authorities in “backing our
warrants”

RHODES SUMMIT

Mr Kfamock said that this
would be remembered not so
much as the Rhodes summit but
as the Ryan summit It seemed
dear to many, as to him. that the
Belgian Cabinet should have
allowed Father Ryan's extra¬
dition to Britain.

“But it is also dear that if the
confusion began with the pol¬
itical evasion by the Belgian
Cabinet, it was turned into

chaos by the prejudicial tarn
trams of the British Prime
Minister last week.”

To ensure that there was no
hiding place for suspected ter¬
rorists in these islands, would
the Prime Minister take what
opportunity still existed for
bringing the suspect Father
Ryan to fece charges?

Would the Government use
the proven instrument of the
Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act
to act on the allegations of
handling explosives and un¬
authorized possession of ex¬
plosives?

“Will she take her own advice
and back her speeches and
statements with appropriate
deeds instead of indulging in
damaging histrionics?”

Mrs Thatcher said the Gov¬
ernment bad made dear that
until there were other effective
ways of stopping terrorists, of
apprehending criminals, and
dealing with those carrying
drugs, some border controls
must remain.

On Belgium, “the facts spoke
for themselves. That was the
trouble. When we matte this
perfectly dear, I hope that most
people who really believe in
fighting terrorism were on our
side .

In the Ryan case. Britain was
asking the Republic oflretand to
back the warrants sent over or
that Father Ryan sHtwM be
taken into custody while the
application for extradition,
which took much longer, was
fully and property considered.

“With regard to the Criminal
Law Jurisdiction Act, which
enables people to have extra¬
territorial jurisdiction, I am
advised that only two of the four
chares against Ryan could be
beard under that Act Therefore,
h does not seem very relevant”

Mr Nicholas Bod&en (Wol¬
verhampton South west, Q
said that after the Prime Min¬
ister’s justified anger and in¬

dignation about the Ryan
she should calmly reflect that no
special purpose would be
achieved by continuing the An¬
glo-Irish agreement

Mr John Hame (Foyle,
SDLP) asked, after Mrs Thatch¬
er’s conversations with the
prime ministers of Belgium and
Ireland, if her objective to
ensure there was no hiding place
anywhere in these islands for
people who committed murder
might be beam’ achieved by
malting greater use of the Crim¬
inal Law Jurisdiction Act
Mrs Thatcher said sometimes
that Act could be used, but it
was no substitute for effective
extradition. la the particular
case they were considering, only
two of the four charges would be
appli cable under the Act and the
other two would not.

Mr Merlyn Bees (Leeds
South and Moriey, Lab) asked
her to reconsider on the use of
the Criminal haw Jurisdiction
Act. Why could not the two
counts be dealt with in Dublin?
If extradition, the best way of
dealing with it, was not possible,
would it not be possible to go to
Dublin?

Mrs Thatcher said she had
been given legal advice on the
matter.

Mr Ian Gow (Eastbourne, Q
asked if riie recalled the conclu¬
sion of the Attorney General in
the Commons last Thursday,
that the refusal of the Belgian
Government to agree to the
extradition of Father Ryan was
based, not on leal, out on
political grounds. Was there any
legal reason that the Irish Gov¬
ernment should not now agree
to extradition?

Mrs Thatcher said the
application for extradition went
before the court of first instance
in Belgium and the extradition
was granted. It went to the court
of appeal in Belgium and it
confirmed the decision of the
court of first instance. Neverthe¬
less die Cabinet in Belgium
could say yea or nay on a matter
of extradition and they had said

no.

Mr Jeffrey Hooker {Birm¬
ingham, pony Bar, Lab) asked
why the only head of state who
had not addressed the European
Parliament was the head of state
of Britain.

Amid Labour laughter and
calls of“not you, the otter one",
Mrs Thatcher said: “I would
think it was quite obviously the
political head of Government
who does the political work”. It
was different from having an
executive president

Mr Junes Coachman (Gil-
tingham, C) urged ter to ignore
the weasel words of the Leader
of the Opposition whose party,
or past of it would vote against
the Prevention of Terrorism foil
second reading.

Mrs Thatcher: I hope as
many people as possible will
support the Prevention of Ter¬
rorism Bill being made perma¬
nent I can think of nothing
more important to ipdieat ff that
people are determined in fight¬
ing terrorism.

Mr David Wfrmick (Walsall
North, Lab) said that the man¬
ner in which she raised the Ryan
case in the House and the
meeting with Mr Haughey
dearly caused maximum diffi¬
culty and emharassment to the
Irish Republic and gave satisfac¬
tion to the IRA ana its friends.
“Why does she act in a manner
more characteristic of hen uni or
health minister (Mrs Etiwina
Currie)” (Labour laughter).

Mr Kinnock asked why the
Government would not use the
Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act
“Is she saying that if she cannot
get everything, including bring¬
ing Patrick Ryan from Northern
Ireland to this country, then she
will not take legal means to
achieve anything?”

Mrs Thatcher; No. My legal
advice is that only two of toe
four charg e s will come under
that Act. Legal advice most
come from the Attorney Gen¬
eral or the Solicitor General.
Tbe Government believed in an
extradition policy because it was
far better to bring people to trial
in the country where the of¬
fences have taken plac&

Scottish Enterprise will get job
and training responsibilities

Proposals to incorporate the
Scottish Development Agency
(SDA)intoa new national body,
Scottish Enterprise, with strate¬
gic responsibility for enterprise,
job creation and training, were
announced by Mr MafoebB Rtf-
kind. Secretory of State for
Scotland.

He said that at local level a
comprehensive network of local
agencies, ran by employers,
would tailor training to local
needs. Two-thirds or more of
the boards of such agencies
would be expected to come from
the senior ranks of private
business.

SCOTLAND

For the first time, training m
Scotland would be delivered by
a Scottish body answerable to
and funded by (he Secretary of
State for Scotland. The pro¬
posals form part of a White
Paper.

Funding would be that al¬
ready provided for tbe SDA and
training programmes in Scot¬
land, a tool of £500 million this
year..

Functions now carried out by
the SDA might be devolved
later to local agencies. There
were attractions m delegating as
much authority as possible to
local level, but the Government
was undecided where the bal¬

ance between local and central
powers should Be.

He set out three options for
the Highlands and Islands “to
build on success to date”.

These were: To set up a new
body, Highland Enterprise,
incorporating the Highlands
and Islands Development Beard
plus responsib ility for training;
to retain the HIDB and set up
local training agencies; or to
invite tbe HIDB to act as a local
agent for Scottish Enterprise.

There was Labour laughter
when Mr Riflrind claimed to
have been delighted fay wide¬
spread interest and enthusiasm
for his proposals. The people of
Scotland were dearly attracted
to the new opportunities offered
by this approadh to training and
enterprise creation, be said.

Mr Donald Dewar, chief

Opposition spokesman on Scot¬
tish affairs, said that he did not
rem em ber any announcement
which had been so well trailed
and heralded. Mr Riikind had
been doing well in the cliche
business for the past few min¬
utes. The purple passages at the
beginning said much for Mr

RifkmcTs courage, or at least his
brass neck.

But how much substance was
there in the statement? He
suspected that those alarmed by
the advance publicity would be
relieved and those anxious for
better training would be dis¬
appointed.

The recognition of a need for
a Scottish dimension in training
was welcome. One of the teste of
the new organization would be
its ability to influence the
development of employment
training and youth training
schemes.

Mr Rifkind said that the local
organizations would be em¬
ployer-led. The Opposition ex¬
pected that they would be
genuinely representative of tbe
community. “Whatever contri¬
bution employers may make,
they cannot have exclusive
jurisdiction. Trade unions and
local authorities must have their
place.”

Mr Riikind said that many of
the ideas in the White Paper had
come from Scottish industry
which had indicated its readi¬
ness to accept more respon¬
sibility for the provision of
training.

Mr William Walker (Tayside
North, O said that many people

in Scotland, certainly those
involved in training and run¬
ning a business, would welcome
the statement. It was the first
sensible approach for a long
time towards the needs of
industry.

Mr Alexander Salmond
(Banff and Buchan, SNP) ex¬
pressed concern that, under the
guise of a welcome devolution
of Training Commission func¬
tions, they may be seeing a
filleting of the Scottish Dev¬
elopment Agency.

How many jobs did he expea
to be held at the centre?

Mr Rifkind said that he did
not envisage that any of tbe
proposals in the While Paper
were likely to have a direct effect
on toe number of staff employed
at the SDA and the Highlands
and Islands Development
Board.

Mr Richard Douglas (Dun¬
fermline West, Lab) said that
one of toe difficulties of em¬
ployer-led training was that it
required training for jobs as they
were, not for jobs as they were
likely to be.

Mr Rifkind said that be
envisaged local agencies prepar¬
ing economic profiles of their
locality about likely future skill
shortages.

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for setf-atfoertBetaent, a C on se r v ati ve
backbencher said to loud Labour cheers
daring Prime Minister’s question
Mr Robin MaxweO-Efoslop (Tiverton, C)
asked Mrs Thatcher if she m awue of the

devastation caused to tbe livelihoods of
many people fat the poultry industry by Mrs
Camels reckless and uninformed state¬
ments. As Mrs Thatcher was responsible
for the composition of her Government,
w ha t action did she intend to take now
(Labour cheers)?

Mrs Thatcher: I understand his concern.

but the answer to his question is; no, sir.

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I did read very carefully the statement by
the Chief Medical Officer, first on Novem¬
ber 21 and second on December S.

I must say, having read them both very
carefully, I then decided to have scrambled
egg oa toast for hmch and enjoyed iL

Children Bill: Second reading

Child law ‘landmark’

The days when a child was
regarded as a possession of his
parent — when they bad a right
to his services and to sue on
their loss - were now buried for
ever, Lord Mackay of Clash-
fern, the Lord Chancellor, said
in moving the second reacting
the Children Bill in tbe Lords.

The overwhelming purpose of
parenthood waa toe respon¬
sibility for caring for and raising
the child to be a property
developed adult physically and
morally.

He said that toe Bill — a
landmark in children’s legisla¬
tion—was item art comprehen¬
sive and far-reaching reform of
child law before Parliament, in
living memory. It brought to¬
gether public and private law
over the care; protection and
upbringing of children and toe
provision of services to them
and their families.

The Bill repealed seven post¬
war Acts and limited others to
purely criminal or adult pro¬
visions. It would provide statute
law in a form that was simpler,
more accessible to those who
work with it .and more
comprehensible.

“The concern of recent years
about the present legal frame¬
work for children has been
fuelled by toe tragic and, to
many, incomprehensible phe¬
nomenon of child abuse:

“Some 100 children, some of
them known to local authority
soda! services departments and
some actually in their care, die
each year at the hands of a
parent, step parent or connected
adult.

“At any one time about
40,000 children in England
alone are on child-protection
registers. We were shocked too,
by toe events in Cleveland and,
helped by tbe very careful and
thorough report of Lord Justice
Bmler^sloss, we must ensure

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OVer-ZeaJoilS handling of
such cases does not recur.

“But, equally, the reports on
tbe deaths of Jasmine Beckford,
Kimberley Gartile, Tyra Henry
and others show the importance
of ensuring that children at risk
are property protected.”

That pointed to the need to
have a legal framework giving
effective protection to those too
young and vulnerable to defend
themselves and was also fair to
parents.

“This balance has been shown
to be missing from child-care
law at present. We have also
felled to satisfy tbe European
Court of Human Rights that tbe
present law in relation to pa¬
rental access to children in care
is satisfactory. The Bill seeks to

correct these and otter deficien¬
cies of the present law.”

The Bill would discourage the
practice of putting children in
care because of inadequate
home circumstances or as part
of a divorce package.

Local authorities would also
have a new duty to promote the
upbringing of children in need
by their families so far as it was
consistent with their welfare
duty to tbe child himself.
Partnership with parents, based
on agreement so far as possible,
would be toe guiding principle.

“As a matter of principle, it is
important for the law in a free
society expressly to protea the
integrity and independence of
families save where there is at
least likelihood of significant
harm to the child from within
the family”

Lord Mackay: Pnbfic and
private law brought together

In reforming child law, tbe
Bifl also provided for toe re¬
design of court arrangements
and procedures to meet tbe
needs of children’s cases.

To emphasize the civil nature
of proceedings concerning child¬
ren, toe Bid by amendment win
take power to shift jurisdiction
to tear care implications from
magistrates’ juvenile courts to
domestic courts, thus finally
obliterating any criminal over¬
tones.

It would also be possible for
all proceedings to be beard in
the same court by judges and
magistrates who had made a
special study of family work.

“With this Bill the Govern¬
ment has put in hand a pro¬
gramme of work which will
extend step by step to afl aspects
of family law and business.

The main improvements
under the Bil would go a long
way to achieving the general
approach to all family litigation
sought by those who had called
for a family court.

Tourist

centre

protest

The tourist information
centre at the Tower of
London is closed from the.
autumn to Easter because it is
in a temporary hut not
suitable for winter use, Mr
John Lte, Under Secretary
of State for Employment, said
at questions.

Talks to improve it are
taking place between the
London Tourist Board and
the London Docklands
Corporation, be told Mr
Conal Gregory (York, Q.

Mr Gregory said that an
enormous opportunity was
being Iosl It was a nat¬
ional scandal that such an
attractive venue as toe
Tower had its tourist informa¬
tion centre closed from the
autumn to Easter.

Mr Lee said that be
would like to see more rites

open for longer periods.

Concern over

Welcome
for EEC

budget

The draft budget of the Euro¬
pean Community for next year
provided considerable impetus
towards completion of the in¬
ternal market oy 1992, Mr Alex
Carlile, Democrat spokesman
on European affairs, told MPs in
a short debate late on Monday.

Broadly welcoming the bud¬
get, he said that it provided fer
greater economic and social
cohesion betwen member states.
It also speeded the pr oduct ion
of a common policy on research
and development and started to
tackle environmental policy.

Mr Peter Brooke, Paymaster

General, moving a motion, taler
agreed, to take note of toe 1989
draft budget, said that the
European Parliament at Stras¬
bourg would have its second
reading debate in toe week
beginning December 12.

Mr Smart Holland, an Oppo¬
sition spokesman on Treasury
and economic affairs, said that
one or the reasons why toe
budget was in better shape tow
year was toe overall situation ot
toe world food market, es¬
pecially toe rise of food pnees
because of toe US drought-

Mr David Curry (Skipion and
Ripon. C) gave two cheers for
the budget. What characterized
it was a new mountain, toe
Brussels ash mountain. New
nressures were coming, me ua
Kuch increased its darning
in response to toe drought ana,
in a couple ofveora, tocre would
be a big increase in us gram
harvest. ,.

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could be extended to the expen¬
sive agriculture sector.

Council oath Bill ‘unnecessary’

The following report of Mon¬
day's debate appeared import la
later editions yesterday.

N IRELAND

out and leaving others to carry
ob toe front-fine wrk.

Mr Tony Bean (Chesterfield,
Lab) said that he would vote

The Government's prop o sa ls
to require a declaration of
opposition to violence from
people seeking public office in
Northern Ireland were described
from toe Opposition front bench
as misconceived and unneces¬
sary when they were pot to the
Commons.

The BiU, toe Elected Authori¬
ties (Northern Ireland) BiU,
provides that anyone s ta n di n g
for election m Northern Ireland
will have to declare that he or
she does not support violence or
banned organizations.

Mr Eesm McNamara, chief
Opposition spokesman on
Northern Ireland, said toat the
case against such le gislati on had

bees made so rigorously that be

was surprised that toe Govern¬
ment had been foolish enough to

introduce the BUL

Mr Peter Robiasoa (Betttst
East, DUP) described toe BiU as
a limp, lukewarm measure that
was neither fish nor fowL

Mr Tout Bag, Sectary of
State for Northern Ireland,
moved second reading and Mr
McNamara, tamed an amend-
nw«r to decline second reading
to the BUI, which, he, said, was
unnecessary because incitement
to violence and displays of
support for terrorism were al¬
ready criminal offences.

The BUI did not address Hsdf
to the problems of reducing toe
sice of toe sea in which toe
terrorist swam.

The BIB was nusconeerved
and unnecessary. It was not
Mhw to eradicate violence. It
wasfntile. It would strengthen
tbe paramilitary cause.

It was dear that toe Bill wrould
have unintended consequences
that the Government had failed
to consider.

The greatest disruption in

Mr Robinson: Bin is a limp,
lukewarm measure

conodl chambers had been the
result of toe Unionist campaign
against the Anglo-Irish agree¬
ment, not the presence of the
Shut Fein.

It was already a criminal
offence to express support for
paramilitaries.

The BUI was a Wow not to toe
supporters of tbe paramilitaries
bat to cons ti t u tional national-

Mr Robinson said that the BUI
purported fo be a declaration
against terrorism, which it was
not.

Tbe Government was hypo¬
critical.

It could not be right that
Unionist coundDors should stiff
be expected to sit down and
debate wanes in focal conari!
chambers with members of Sinn
Fein while foe Secretary of State
and his ministers refused to do
tire same.

The Government was docking

The first person to act against
a Sim Fein coondlior would
have to “keep his head down”.
The fives of coanoBors would be
In damper.

If there was not to be a
l ^i in i nil nffww to be pursued,
therefore, by the DPP, toe
Government must consider set¬
ting up a body, perhaps a
commission, to which people
could i»ke a complaint about
remarks by el e cted repre¬
sentatives and which would be
able to bring a prosecution.

Mr Clifford Forsythe (Sooth
Antrim, OUP) said that it was
becoming more and more diffi¬
cult to ga the right people to run
for office while the shadow of the

pm and the terrorist hung over

council chambers.

Mr Paddy Ashdown, leader of
the Democrats and party
spokesman on Northern Ireland,
said that what was supposed to
provide a further instrument to
defeat terrorism had been made
more difficult by the bungling
mismanagement by the Prime
Minister of toe extradition of
Patrick Ryan.

‘What she had done had been
cheered to the echo by toe IRA,
those who wanted an end to toe
Anglo-Irish agreement and
those who wished to see rela¬
tions'between toe republic and
the United Kingdom at their
worst level possible.

The question was whether this
was a useful mechanism to add
to the hand of Government to
defeat t er r orism without signifi¬
cantly crril liberties.

“My view is that it is a useful
mechanism.”

Mr Edik McGrody (South
Dews, SDLP) sax! that the Bill
would set the ext re m ists In the
council at one an¬

other's throats and, in that
process?, local democracy would
be sacrificed.

against tbe second reading, “It is
'a dangerous, little BUI made bo
less offensive becaase of the fact
that It will be wholly and
completely ineffective.”

Tbe principle of trying to deal
with refigfoes or political move¬
ments by oaths was absrad.

“When you attack elected
people, you are really a tt a ck ing
those who elected them.”

Partition had been imposed ou
Ireland by force.

It HI befitted the Government,
which favoured partition, to say:
Now we have cut yon up by force,
you most commit yourself to
fhwfr your aspirations to the
& tin ct ure s we set.

like any war, this one had to
be brought to an end by negotia¬
tions.

“If the war to Ireland is to ewd
tiure wiO have to be a round
table conference. The jurisdic¬
tion of Britain in Northern
Ireland wfll have to end, not

Few youngsters in
poverty, MPs told

Reported poverty among young
people because of cuts in tbeir
benefits was raised by Labour
MPs at Prime Minister’s ques¬
tions. She said that only a small
minority of youngsters was in¬
volved and one Labour back¬
bencher called her response
hypocritical.

Mrs Thatcher We are talking
about a small minority of young
people - (protests) — living m-
dependcttiy. They receive maxi¬
mum help with rent and rates.

Mr Keith Bradley (Manchest-
r, Withington, Lab) raised toe

evidence published by Dr
Bamardo’s, that children leav¬
ing local authority care faced
abject poverty because of the
cots in their benefits. Would she
support tbe introduction of a
special benefit allowance for
teenagers leaving local care?

Mr Brian Wilson (Cunning-
hame North, Lab) said that her
response to the question on tbe
report had been hypocritical.
Would she accept that the
guarantee of a YTS place, on
which the withdrawal of all
benefits to 16 and 17-year-olds
had been based, “is a lie”?

Mrs Thatcher There are-very
many more YTS places than
young people applying for them
m all regions or the country.

engineering

Sir Cyril Smith (Rochdale,
Democrat) expressed concern
during questions that
school leaven were not in¬
terested in careers in en¬
gineering. They were more
interested in computers.
“There is a considerable
shortage of applicants for
apprenticeships in lhe en¬
gineering industry.

Mr Patrick Nicholls,
Undersecretary of State for
Employment, agreed.
“Employers need to to be in¬
volved in the training of
young people; that is entirely
right. The proposition we
announced yesterday in our
White Paper will ensure
that employers play their
proper part in this way."

Blake print

in lieu of tax

The Government has ac¬
cepted a flower painting by Ja¬
cob Mattel and a print by
William Blake, “Frontispiece
to the Book of Ahania”, in
lieu of tax. Mr Richard Luce,
Minister for Arts, said in a
written answer that the tax
liability satisfied had been
£61.369 and £19,658 respec¬
tively. The Blake print will
goto the Fitzwilliam Mu¬
seum, but it has not yet
bran decided where the
Mareel painting will go.

Parliament today

Commons (230): Ques¬
tions: Trade and industry.
Water BiU, second reading,
first day.

Lords (230): Debates on
consumer debt and on assis¬
tance for the mentally ill
ami mentally handicapped.

mder threat bat by the decision
of the British Parliament ”

Mr Stoma Baras (Chelms¬
ford, C) welcomed toe KQ
despite the fact that there were

still anomalies.

Mr Richard Needham, Under
Secretary of State for Northern
Ireland, replying to toe debate,
said that of Scan Fern s 58
coenefliors, II bad been con¬
victed of terrorist-type offences,
■nd a further three had faced or
were feeing charges. Six other
councillors had also been con¬
victed of scheduled offences.

A big problem was Caused in
the Northern Irefend district
councils by those who openly
supported violence.

The Opposition amendment
was rejected by 291 votes to 195
— Government majority, 96, and
foe B31 read a second time by
274 votes to 41 — Government
majority, 233.

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GETTING LONDON
MOVING

Part 3: Charging for
use of the roads

The policy of
restraint seems
to be the most
effective in
keeping drivers
off the streets.
Paul Vallely
looks at the
advantages and
disadvantages

L et us suppose that
from next week
guests at the Ritz
will no longer pay for
rooms and that all
costs will be paid by the
government from the public
purse. It is possible that this
would mean there will be
more guests than there are
rooms. If so, then guests can
steep two, three or four to a
bed. Any others can sleep on
the floor or in the corridors. If
this is insufficent to satisfy
demand, then the taxpayer
will be asked to begin provid¬
ing the resources for building
another hold next door.

This idea may, on -the
surface, seem impractical, but
it can work — it is, after all, the
way London's road system is
run. In terms of land price
alone, the road space in the
middle of London is probably

Choked to death: a typical scene on a Loudon road — but should motorists pay for the privilege of takrag to the streets?

the most valuable real estate
anywhere in Europe. Yet its
management is curiously
anarchic.

Where a commodity is
scarce and demand is hi g h,
there are several mechanisms
for regulating the situation.
The most usual method is to
set prices at a level where
supply and demand are bal¬
anced. Demand can also be
restrained by law. It can be
decreed, for example, that
camping is illegal in a public
park or that only doctors or
the disabled can park in a
certain {dace.

Another method of restraint
is to use a time penalty. To
obtain the limited number of
bargains at a Harrods sale, or
tickets fora Wimbledon final,
people pay by giving up their
time; often they are prepared
to queue for days.

A similar mechanism is
used to ration space on the
roads. It is called congestion
and most transport econo¬
mists agree that it is the least
useful technique for social and
economic efficiency.

As the capital's arteries
become steadily more blocked
and the traffic occasionally
seizes solid for hours, it has
become obvious that the de¬
fault policy of congestion can¬
not be allowed to continue.
Transport experts are search¬
ing for something better.

Elsewhere in the world, the
pdicy of restraint is being
tried. It produces undoubted
benefits, as any tourist in the
traffic-free centre of Florence
will testify. But serious draw¬
backs have emerged.

In Singapore, where cars
can only enter the centre in the
rush hour if they are foil, street

urchins hire themselves as
extra passengers to motorists
with empty cars. In Lagos,
where cars with odd and even
numberplates are only
allowed in on alternate days,
the wealthy have bought two
cars and the corrupt have
obtained two numberplates.
In Milan, where exemptions
are made for essential users, a
surprising number of 18-year-
old doctors have appeared on
the streets.

To a Government as enam¬
oured of market forces as Mrs
Thatcher’s, the most obvious
solution is to begin charging
for use of the roads. Road
pricing, as it is known, is
widely accepted among trans¬
port planners of all political
views as inevitable for a city as
large and congested as
London, where 1.15 million
people commute into a

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A reduction of as little as
20 per cent in the number of
private cars would make the
traffic flow much more freely.

The notion finds favour for
a number of reasons. The
green lobby sees that it would
reduce the number of private
cars — which make up more
than 70 per cent of London's
traffic — thus diminishing
noise, poDution and road ac¬
cidents (500 deaths, 5,000
serious and 50,000 other inju¬
ries a year in London).

Until 18 months ago, the
number of accidents in
London was foiling, says the
Metropolitan Police, but those
involving private cars are
rising rapidly owing to
increasingly reckless.driving
which the police attribute to
congestion frustration.

S tephen Plowden, traf¬
fic adviser to Friends
of the Earth, in a
report called A Case
for Traffic Restraint in
London, says: “No one should
be obliged to accept such
encroachments on their free¬
dom for the sake of the
marginal convenience of trav¬
ellers.” He recommends a
scheme which combines road
pricing and permits for certain
users.

Advocacy more sympa¬
thetic to the economic views
of the Government comes
from several free-market
transport experts, such as Sir
Alan Walters, who first em¬
braced the idea of road pricing
in 1961 when he was a
transport economist Since
then he has become something
of an economic guru to the
Prime Minister, to whose
office he returns on a full-time
basis in January.

The free-market argument
is simple. When a motorist
gets into his car, he is largely
aware of what the journey will
cost in time and petrol He
does not include the cost of
wear on the road or the cost to
other drivers — the extra
congestion his vehicle will
add, even if only fractionally,
to the costs, in petrol and
time, of other drivers.

Road pricing will make him
pay these extra costs in a way
which relates directly to them
(rather than through an an-

ELECTRONIC CAT’S-EYES TO DETER THE MOTORIST

T here are two baste
met ho ds of ch ar gi ng
for the use of roads:
selling tickets or li¬
cences in advance, or
metering each vehicle's jour¬
neys with electronic meters
and sensors built into the road.

The first would involve war¬
dens checking licences at a
cordon around central Loudon
or at random throughout the
area. If charges were high
enough, afl parMog meters in
the area could be removed and
wardens would concentrate on
licence checks.

The second is favoured by
most experts. It is based on a
system devised by scientists at
foe Greater London Council
almost a decade ago as part of
a road-pricing study which
was later abandoned. The
technology was borrowed by
the Hong Kong road authori¬
ties for trial

Each vehicle was fitted with
an electronic numberplate
(ENP) welded to its underside
which transmitted a unique
code when interrogated by
electronic loops in the road.
Roadside computers foeo
transmitted the data to a
control centre for checking
before bills were sent to the
drivers. Vehicles with ENPs
which had been tampered with
were recorded on video cam¬
eras for prosecution.
Te chnicall y, the experiment

nual car tax). The more he
travels, and the more con¬
gested a time and place he
chooses, the more he will pay.
This wifl provide a dis¬
incentive to wasteful use.

In this way, journeys which
are of low or marginal value to
the driver would not be made;
congestion would lessen; and
the revenue from essential
journeys would enable the
road authorities to gauge the
demand for building new
roads.

The weak point is that the
less well-off would be priced
off the roads. Dr Phil Good¬
win, reader in Transport Stud¬
ies at Oxford University,
aigues that this problem could
be overcome by extending the
concept of the free market to
the entire transport sector in
London, rather than restrict¬
ing it to roads.

“With a commodity as vital
as transport in the capital, it is
important to use market
mechanisms to gain maxi¬
mum efficiency for society
rather than simply to maxi¬
mize private profits or raise
extra tax revenue. So the
revenues from road pricing
would be used for whatever
purpose gave the maximum
benefit — provision of car
parks, new rail lines, subsidies
to bus services — to improve
overall efficiency,” be says.

Investments in public trans¬
port would give a better

was a success, although it

uncovered limitations:

• All vehicles, even those
which rarely ase the priced
area, have to be fitted with an
ENP which costs £40.

• The need to install loops in
foe road would make it diffi¬
cult to introduce extensive
changes in the system.

• There was no indication at
the time of the journey how
much it was costing. Meters
would have to be developed to
show this if drivers were to be
deterred from journeys.

• A congestion problem occ¬
urred on the boundary where
people parked to avoid paying.

• A dear policy on exemp¬
tions — for the disabled,
doctors or residents — is
needed in advance.

The project was abandoned
after an outcry from pressure
groups and foe authorities
trebled car tax instead. This
bought a temporary respite bot

there is again talk of the
system behiR introduced.

Road pricing is in operation
in two large cities, Bergen and
Singapore, and is regarded as
a success in both. Bergen,
Norway’s second city (pop.
200 , 000 ). did sot have serious
congestion but needed money
to build new roads. It set up
tolls on exits from the ring
road to the city centre, with
fast lanes for drivers holding
pre-paid passes. A single
ticket w hen the scheme began
in 1986 cost 50 p and an annual
pass £100. Charges in London
(pop. seven million) would be
much higher.

Singapore introduced its
Area Licence Scheme in 1975.
Motorists pay to enter the
centre in the morning peak.
Cars with more than four
occupants are free. The
scheme caused chaos on the
edge of the pay zone until a
ring road was built.

DRIVE NOW, PAY LATER

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waT plate on car

Sensors
in road

: Roadside meter

service for those drivers who
were priced out of their cars
for city-centre travel and for
the poorer sections of society
who already have no alter¬
native to buses and tube. Sir
Alan would be against that as
subsidy under another name.

B ut other transport
economists who gen¬
erally espouse free
market principles
maintain it would be
unrealistic not to plough back
revenue from road pricing
into more efficient transport
sectors.

“Transport demand can
never be satisfied in cities
where land is a scarce
commodity,” Professor John
Hibbs, of Birmingham Poly¬
technic, says. “You cannot
just pull buildings down in¬
definitely to make more roads.
You have to use market
mechanisms, but you can't
leave the market alone en¬
tirely to take care of it”

In any case, according to
Peter Hall, Professor of Geog¬
raphy at Reading University:
“Road pricing is not just a
method of raising revenue. It
needs to be designed to con¬
strain traffic and part of that
policy has to be to mo vide a
public transport system with a
consistently high level of ser¬
vice. The public should be
able to see the link between
the way you charge for roads

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and the way you support
public transport."

But the question exercising
the minds of transport min¬
isters is whether road pricing
would not raise a political
storm in Britain. Paul
Chan non. the Transport Sec¬
retary, has set his mind against
it and his civil servants have
marshalled a long list of
practical difficulties. Private¬
ly, however, one senior official
admits: “Of course it could be
done, it is technically possible,
and we could find ways
around these difficulties." But
ministers regard the idea as a
vote-loser.

Ken Huddart, formerly
London's chief traffic engineer
and more recently a consul¬
tant to the World Bank,
agrees. “Traffic would have to
get a lot worse before people
would demand that something
should be done which is as
radical as making them pay
for what they used to get free.
Maybe when it takes three
hours to make a journey they
now do in half that time it will
happen."

Others believe that tol¬
erance of the problem in
London is already approach¬
ing such a breaking point.
Goodwin concedes that road¬
pricing has been the most
successful theoretical but the
least successful political con¬
tribution by economists to
transport planning. Bui be
believes that it is nearer than it
has ever been.

Winning political acceptab¬
ility is now largely just a
question of tactics, says Sir
Christopher Foster, of the
economic analysts Coopers &
Lybrand, who was a transport
adviser to two Labour govern¬
ments. “First you build new
roads, which can only be used
by cars with electronic road
pricing equipment, to entice
people to accept it. Then you
extend its use for parking, then
to curb congestion in a limited
central area, then for the
whole of London. Then you
can pul up prices on public
transport to levels where the
whole system is at last paying
for itself.”

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more roads?

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eggs pinpointed by Mrs Cunifi
are only the tip of the iceberg.

Ministerial Eggs can be
quite as untrustworthy. We
present a cut-out-and-keep
guide to Ministerial Eggs that
might not be all they seem.
Eggsact figures: usually “not
available". Instead, the min¬
ister offers “personal observa¬
tions” supported by “public
opinion" both of which hap¬
pen to support his own point
of view.

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gerate “foe problem”. Min¬
isterial statement delivered
after major catastrophe.
Eggwmpie; Ministers like to
give anecdotal eggsamples
drawn from their own recent
eggsperiences. Coincidentally,
these "eggsamples tend to show
that (a) they travel by public
transport; (b)they enjoy a joke
at their own eggspencr, (c)
they hobnob with ordinary
folk. “I was in Birmingham
buying bangers and mash on a
bus the other day and an
ordinary senior citizen dap¬
ped me on foe back and sard:
“You are doing a great job’."
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gage on iL. Had a S Eggsorbitanfc any

greet foil demand by anyone

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conflict XSROWN “If I might

Eggslasive: all . draw your atten-

Sunday papers tion away from the

carry the same eggslusives, all point you are making.”
delivered, and hier denied, by Eggspect “The type of carp-
government ministers. ing we have come to cggspect

Eggs communicated: see focun foe party opposite:
Heath, Eggward. catch-all response to any

Eggscnse: Mr Clarke wants to criticism.”
know what your eggseuse is ^ggspendrtnre: always much
this time, Eggwina. higher than it was in 1979.

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taken by Mrs Thatcher. teresting” but usually also
Eggsfcaastive enquiries: 3 I- “impractical",
ways follow leaked eggsit of Eggsperfes: (as in ‘Govem-
ministerial intentions. mem Eggsperts'): a group of

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to be right. You raise a couple precision any figures that
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maiff-c an e gg shibition of initiative,
himself.” Eggsphun: “If you will just let

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fears of foe old and foe under¬
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querying government policy.

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argument): I will draw atten¬
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foe minister cannot be blamed'
for everything that goes wrong
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Eggward.

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wrong impression of what foe
Minister really said.

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newest boom area. Liz Gill reads on —

O nce upon a time there was
a family of dinosaurs who
bad funny green feces and
long tails but otherwise
were just like you and me.
Sadly, the Mummy dinosaur and the
Daddy dinosaur didn't love each
other any more and so they got a
divorce.

The little dinosaurs were very, very
sad and cried a lot. And when
Mummy and Daddy got married
again to other people and they had
stepbrothers and sisters it was even
more confusing. But it all worked out
all right in the end because, you see.
Mummy and Daddy still loved the
little dinosanrs very much indeed.

That in a nutshell is the story of
Dinosaurs Divorce. A Guide for
Changing Families (which includes
the illustration above), and a fable for
our times. It is written by an
American couple, Laurene and Marc
Brown, who nave been through the
mill themselves.

' It is an example of a boom area in
children’s publishing: “special situa¬
tion" bools, which tadde everything
flora having an eye test and the arrival
of a new baby to separation, step-
parenting and sexual abuse.

There are now so many such books
that Tony Bradman, author and
consultant to Parents magazine, has
written a guide to the field called I
Need a Book!.

The best, he says, can be an
enormous help in getting families to
talk about difficult areas, provided
books are already pan of family life.
“Producing one with a flourish when
you never normally read together
alerts the child to the feet that
something very important and them>
fore wonying is going on.

“I think if you look on them as
anything more than aids to discussion
you are in trouble. No book, however 1
sincere and well-meaning, can tackle
the dynamics of a marriage breaking
up where the problem might have
been around for years.**

The best ones are those which are
well and sensitively written with a
touch of humour, which makes the
books entertaining in themselves and
helps keep a sense of proportion.

Bradman, a father of three, advises
avoiding books that contain ambigu¬
ities or those that raise more issues
than you might wish to address. He
also warns: “A lot of psycho-babble
has crept in, particularly in adolescent
books. I saw an American one that
raised the subjects of abortion, virgin¬
ity, nuclear war and menstrual cramps
in the first three pages.

“Sometimes a book can create a
problem. I heard of one little giri who
was given a book on coping with fears
of the dark. Till then she’d never
thought there was anything to be
afraid of 1 get sick to death, too. of all
these new taby-aniving books that go
on and on about the difficult tunes
ahead. Fora lot of children it’s no big
deal."

Many of the classic children's
stories already deal with “special
situations”. What better illustration of
sibling rivalry than Cinderella, or of
family troubles than Hansel and
Greid? “They also have stereotypes of
course,” Bradman says. “It may be a
good idea to get away from the idea
that stepmothers are invariably
wicked — but Red Riding Hood, for
example, is the stranger/danger tale.
par excellence.'"'

Julia Ecckshare, selector of Chil¬
dren's Books of the Year (an annual
publication sponsored by the Book
Trust), believes the incorporation of
“special situations” such as divorce
and disability into mainstream fiction
is a healthy trend. “It can be very
reassuring to know you are not alone,

and it’s also very good for children to
learn about how outer people live. But
some of these books are not books,
they are just vehicles.”

Althea Braithwahe wrote her book
on divorce is the aftermath of her own
marriage break-up, when her son
Duncan was aged 10. “He asked me
fora book on me subject and the only
one we could find was an American
one called My Dad Lives in a
Downtown Hotel, which wasn't very
appropriate for someone living in a
village 12 miles outside Cambridge.”

S ince then she has become a
specialist in the field, with 20
books to her credit on subjects
such as death, disability and
going to the doctor. She
researches meticulously and remains
unperturbed by the fashionable mid¬
dle-class jibe that a child who gets an
Althea book is in for something nasty.

She says: “We constantly underesti¬
mate our children's ability to deal
with serious issues. Death, for in¬
stance, is still the tag taboo, like sex
used to be, but when I go into schools
the children really want to talk about
it Besides not talking about something,
whispering, or shutting up when a child
comes into die room, can make a child
feel something is worse than it is.”

Braithwaite is working on a story
about childhood cancer - “so many
children survive these days that when
they go back to school everyone's
terrified of them”—and would like to
do one on Aids.

Michele Elliott, author and founder
of Kidscape, the child abuse preven¬
tion programme, is working on a book
for the under-fives. It centres on a
granny because research with children
identified her as the person they

would be most likely to confide in. It
only involves a secret kiss, but she
believes h will raise important issues
in an innocuous way.

“You don't need to educate child¬
ren away from their innocence to give
them strategies,” she says. “You can
be low key and still get your concerns
across.”

She is against books that handle
sexual abuse in a very explicit way
being read by children who have not
been abused: “I might use them with
children who have suffered because
often they don’t understand what has
happened. But most children are not
abased and these images can be very
frightening.”

Margaret Robinson, a therapist and
conciliator at the Institute of Family
. Therapy in London, advised on the
' English edition of Dinosaurs Divorce.
She has recommended it to friends
and used it professionally. She says: “I
don’t think concepts (ike guilt are too
complex fora small child. They might
not know the word, tart it’s very
common for them to think Daddy has
gone away because they've been
naughty. *

“But the book must be good. Some
are amply appalling and don't under¬
stand the child's point of view. I
particularly like animals because
they’re indirect”

No one I spoke to attributed
anything but the best of motives to
parents who sought help from books.
Was there never, for instance in the
case of divorce, an element of self¬
justification?

Bradman thinks not but he does
say that the books may jar on the
child. “The truth is that however
rough things are, children don’t want
their parents to split up and it may be
that to have a book saying how every¬
thing is going to be all right really goes
against the grain.”

• Dinosaurs Divorce, by Laurene
Krasny Brown and Marc Brown, pub¬
lished by Collins, £5.95.

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Cultural

quizzes

December is quiz month at
the National Gallery, with free
brain-teasers daily for adults
and children. “After Dark”
explores images of nigbi and
darkness, and encourages
children to discover the work
of Guido Reni and Pissaro.
“Heavens Above”, for adults,
takes heavenly creatures as its
theme. The children's quiz
can be collected from the Quiz
Desk at the Orange Street
entrance from December 17;
the adult one from the Inform¬
ation Desk from next Mon¬
day. There will also be Round

Robin talks in the galleries
and free guided tours with a
seasonal touch, focusing on
nativity paintings.

Just crackers

Quality children’s crackers are
bard to find (He-Man and
Transformer variety aside)
and many grown-ups prefer
them to adult ones containing
worthy but dull items such as
handkerchiefs and nail files.
Fortnum & Mason has some
charming Guards crackers in
boxes of six for£12,50—shiny
foil soldiers complete with
bearskins and moustache — or
a single giant Guard cracker
with enough gifts for a tableful
of the young at heart. They are

BRIEFLY

A round-up of news,
views and information

also worth snapping up for
birthday parties since they are
one of the few n on-seasonal
designs.

Star verse

Learn more about the favour¬
ite childhood poems of celeb¬
rities in A Child At Heart
(£2.99), the second edition of
an anthology of poems picked
by well-known people to bene¬

fit the British Heart Founda¬
tion and the Newsvendors'
Benevolent Institution. It
began as a class project by 10-
year-old pupils at Seymour
Junior School, Manchester,
and is available through
branches of Menzies, W.H.
Smith and other newsagents.

Neil Kinnock's is “They
walked this road in seasons
past/When all the skies were
overcast/They breathed defi¬
ance as they wem/Along those
troubled hills of Gwent”; Sir
Robin Day likes “I wandered
lonely as a cloud..Jan
Leeming is nostalgic about “If
I should die, think only this of
me..Princess Alexandra
selected “Silver” by Walter de
la Mare; and Raymond Briggs
chose his own “Fungus the
Bogeyman”.

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Dedicated to the
bebop baroness

Pannonica de
Koenigswarter,
who died last
week, was rich,
aristocratic, and a
vital part of New
York’s jazz scene

A mixture of mild con¬
tempt and grudging
gratitude is the jazz
musician's usual response to
the attentions of the hangers-
on who have populated his
scene since its earliest days. A
few dollars to help get the horn
out of hock, a free meal and
the loan of a week's rent have,
in some cases, been of vita!
assistance to a down-at-heel
jazz musician.

Some of these people are
attracted by jazz's reputation
— still thriving — as a music of
rebellion. The most rebellious
and consequently the most
persistently influential period
in jazz occurred during the
early 1940s in New York
when Charlie Parker, Dizzy
Gillespie, Miles Davis,
Thelonious Monk, Charlie
Mingus, Bud Powell and a few
others invented the reckless,
revolutionary music known
first as bebop and later simply
as modern jazz. As much as
the music, the off-beat lives of
its exponents attracted more
hangers-on than paying cus¬
tomers. But not all of those
who were photographed in the
sometimes bleak after-hours
New York jazz clubs were
| there for the ride. One or two
actually contributed more
than loose change and adora¬
tion. Baroness Pannonica de
Koenigswarter, who died last
Thursday, aged 74, was just
such a ran..

Known throughout the jazz
fraternity as Nica, the late
baroness was boro a Roth¬
schild. Her natural aristocratic
social ease, her sensitive
appreciation of modern artis¬
tic trends, and — perhaps not.
least — her unlimi ted wealth
gave Nica a unique entree into
the tight, self-protective world
of bebop.

A good-looking sports¬
woman and intellectual, Nica
had been introduced to jazz
through her brother, Victor,
himself an able pianist (he had
been taught, in an informal
way, by the great Benny
Goodman sideman, Teddy
Wilson). In 1951 she became
bored with her marriage to the
Baron Jules de Koenigswarter,
a high-ranking French dip¬
lomat, and quit their un¬
demanding posting in Mexico
for the excitement and jazz-
filled atmosphere of New
York.

She made her new home at
the Hotel Stanhope, a luxury
establishment on Fifth Ave¬
nue, commuting from there to
the night-clubs of Broadway
and 52nd Street by chauf-

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In tune: Nica and (inset) Charlie Parker, who died in her suite

‘I’m surrounded
by 70 cats.
God help us
both if they all
start mewing
at once’

feured limousine. As well as
critical appreciation, Nica of¬
fered musicians more direct
forms of support, offering her
exclusive ground-floor suite as
a combination of all-night jazz
club and freeloader’s diner. In
return, they paid her the rare
compliment of dedicating
tunes: Thelonious Monk's
“Pannonica”, Horace Silver’s
“Nica’s Dream” and Gigi
Gryce's “Nica's Tempo” were
among the tributes paid by a
generally unsentimental breed.

I t was at the Stanhope that
Nica etched her name on
one of the most vivid and
enduring of all jazz legends,
when she provided the death
bed for Charlie Parker, mod¬
em jazz’s greatest innovator.
Parker’s demise, while watch¬
ing a juggler on TV, was
briefly to give Nica a high
public profile (“Bop King Dies
In Heiress’s Flat”, screamed
one of the Manhattan blats),
but such visibility was never
among her ambitions.

By coincidence, earlier this
year and before I had heard of
Clint Eastwood’s film Bird, 1
began work on a play about
Parker’s last hours in Nica’s

ADVERTISEMENT

fiat. Hoping to talk to her, I
traced Nica lo a phone num¬
ber in Weehawkcn, New Jer¬
sey. The soft voice that
answered explained, following
my brief introduction, that he
was the butler and would put
the baroness on the line.

Would she mind me using
her in my play, 1 asked, and
could I interview her? She had
no problems about being
represented on the stage, she
said, but — and she was
emphatic here — she had
stopped giving interviews 30
years ago and had no desire to
change her mind now. At that
moment my two cocker span¬
iels began barking and I
apologized for the noise. “For¬
get it.” Nica said warmly. “I'm
sitting in my bedroom sur¬
rounded by 70 cats. God help
us both if they all start mewing
at once.”

In that throwaway remark, 1
glimpsed the personality cher¬
ished by Parker, Monk and
many other great jazz mu¬
sicians. an insight confirmed
with the last letter she sent me.
She had used three different-
coloured felt tips to thank me
for a book I had sent. Writing
from “The Calhouse”, Nica
went on to say that Eastwood
had only sent her pictures of
the actress playing her after
filming, and had made her
look like a horse. She would
sue... of course. And there
was a further invitation to
have a drink in a club with her
the next time I was in New
York. I was making plans lo
do it in the new year when I
heard of her death. Too late
for the whiskey sour, but I
shall still write the play.

Barry Fantoni

HOME IMPROVEMENTS: KITCHENS

How we had our dream
kitchen planned free—
and saved £1,352.42 too!

‘EITHER THAT kit¬
chen goes or I go/ was
my welcome home
from Jill the other
night. She’d had the
cutlery all over the
floor out of that sticky
drawer, ‘and as for
that door under the
sink that won’t stay
shut - look at my
shins.’

New wives being in
shorter supply than new
kitchens, we found our¬
selves at our local Magnet
on Saturday morning.

From their range of 21
kitchens, we decided to go
for the Minster Oak. I
think it was the combi¬
nation of two things - the
lasting quality of Oak,
and the appealing vari¬
ations of grain and colour
used in the unit fronts.

Quality

■ferry. Magnet’s kitchen plan¬
ner; was most helpful- First he
took us over to the built-up
Minster Oak kitchen on display.

He asked ns to look close!y at
the finish. “Try the doors’ (which
opened and closed with a satis¬
fying “clunk”) and the drawers
(which glided in and out as if on
rollers).

Our new Minster Oak from Magnet Normally it would have cost £D81,05 -
baton special offer at less 404, we paid £2,02&63, a saving of £1^152.42!

p“ T TZ “ 1 Especially when ferry then gave

by Owen Mathews

Then he sat us down and set to
work, after explaining that plan¬
ning was a FREE service, with
no obligation. Jill pulled out the
sketch rd done with the measure¬
ments of our kitchen. Then ferry
turned to his computer, asking
us questions as he worked.

“Happy”

Where did we want our hob?
Here? Or would we prefer it there?
And our main work surface?
Mmm, a bit far away from the
sink, he thought So shouldn't
we try it over here? Fine.

Next thing our new kitchen
appeared on the computer's
drawingboard. Not one of those
flat plans you see on graph paper,

us a free bottle of champagne,
with Magnet’s compliments. And
what would that particular lay¬
out for the Minster Oak cost us?
At the touch of a button an accu¬
rate costing was clattering out of
the printer. Remember, we’ve
still to take off the 405 special
offerf

40 % off

Frankly I was astounded at
how reasonable it all was-a little .
over £2,000. Now we play a little'
game with our friends: what do ■
they think it cost us? Lowest
guess so far? £4.5001 ;

So if you're thinking of doing ■
up your own kitchen, take a look
ai any one of Magnet's 241
branches nationwide. To find the 1
address of the store nearest to

but a proper perspective plan as you simply ring 0800 300 321 -
if we were standing at the door the call is free. I'm quite sure

looking into the room,

“Happy?" Yes we were, very.

you'll find something there to
suit you too,

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DIARY

Martin Fletcher

I s it me or is h the Conservative Party
that is cynical? Why is it that memorial
services for MPs always seem to be held
in the week of the by-ejections that their
deaths have caused? Sir Brandon Rhys
Williams, MP for Kensington, died on May
18 this year. His memorial service, attended
by the Prime Minister and the Tory great
and good, was held on July i 1, and the by-
election three days later. Sir John Biggs-
Davison, MP for Epping Forest, died on
September 17. His memorial service is to be
held next Tuesday, and the by-election two
days later. These occasions naturally spawn
sympathy and good publicity, and serve as
timely reminders to the voters of bow well
they had been served.

Sir John's memorial service, incidentally,
is to be held at Westminster Cathedral,
which poses a dilemma for those Unionist
MPs whose cause he so fervently supported.
For such committed loyalists to enter a
Roman Catholic cathedral would cause as
much of a sensation as the presence at two
Catholic requiem masses of the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Mackay, an elder of the
Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland- The
word is that as much as they respected Sir
John, the Unionists will stay away.

T he Labour Party is permanently in
financial straits, but matters have
now become decidedly serious; its
creditors are losing patience. It has an
overdraft of roughly £1.5 million, and the
Cooperative Bank has demanded that it
make a £400,000 surplus next year. Lany
Whrtty, the general secretary, has been
having urgent budget meetings with his
directors. Most vacancies have been frozen,
including two in the press office. This has
provoked an official dispute with the NUJ
branch at the party’s Walworth Road
headquarters. It also explains the almost
unprecedented decision not to have a full¬
time party press officer at the Epping Forest
by-election — a decision that has left senior
MPs at Westminster seething.

• If Edwina Currie is the bete noire of the
British egg industry, her Tory colleague
Nicholas Soames, is its champion. At 11am
each day the Crawley MP eats a raw egg
mixed with tabasco, Worcester sauce and a
smidgeon of sherry, and has done so for
many years. He is, he declares, a “salmo¬
nella-free zone” and will not allow Mrs
Currie's strictures to change the habit.

W illiam Hague, the Tory candidate
in the forthcoming Richmond by-
election, enchanted the Prime
Minister when, as a 16-year-old, he ad¬
dressed the 1977 Tory party conference. He
pleased her less when she met him at a
Carlton Club reception the other day. First
he expressed concern about the plight of
farmers. Mrs Thatcher retorted that farmers
had little tc worry about Then, when she
asked when he thought the by-election
should be held, he suggested before the
Budget next March, dearly implying that he
thought that Nigel Lawson, the Chancellor,
would have little good news to impart Mrs
Thatcher was not amused. “Oh ye of little
faith,” she admonished him.

BARRY FANTONI

"Red Alert, Red Alert.. -peace
is about to break out’

W hat do you give to the wife of the
second most powerful man in the
world if your upper limit is £50?
That is the problem facing Kenneth Baker,
the Education Secretary, who will be
escorting Raisa Gorbachov around London
next week. Soviet law roles out a more
expensive gift When the Gorbachovs
stopped over at RAF Brize Norton last
December Baker gave her a Dickens first
edition. When he visited the Soviet Union
this summer they did not meet but be took
her a book of British landscape illustrations
bound by the London College of Printing.
This time round the head-scratching is still
going on.

I n the old days it would have made
headline news. Nowadays it only just
scrapes into diaries. Humphry Berkeley
has changed parties yet again. Tory MP for
Lancaster for seven years, he fought North
Fykte for Labour in 1974 and Southend East
for the SDP in 1987. He has now written to
Neil Kin nock saying that in view of what
has happened to the old Alliance parties be
realizes be should have stayed with Labour |
and could he possibly rejoin? That Kinnock
has said yes may not be unconnected with
ihe last paragraph of Berkeley’s letter “At
the age of 62,1 do not intend to stand for
Parliament again.”

• The “greening” of politics and water
privatization has inevitably thrust Nicholas
Ridley, the Environment Secretary, into the
limelight. One recurring line of the many
newspaper profiles is that he is an expert
embroiderer. Ridley, baffled, says be has
never put a needle through anything.

v.

J ohn Wakeham, Leader of the House,
will soon issue a Commons written
answer 1 with alarming implications.
Tory MP Andrew Mackay had his
f^rwftihflir overcoat stolen from the Mem¬
bers’ Cloakroom the other day. He sub¬
sequently asked Wakeham to list all items
stolen from the Palace ofWcstminster in the
last 12 months, and has been reliably
informed that it will be a very long answer.
Public access to large areas of the Palace,
including the Members’ Cloakroom, is
strictly prohibited.

Nato is at last getting its act
together in the most difficult
area of arms control: the reduc¬
tion of conventional forces. In
Brussels this week foreign min¬
isters will study a detailed pack¬
age of arms-cut proposals which
have been drawn up by officials
after months of often acrimo¬
nious debate within the alliance.
If approved, the proposals will
be presented as the alliance’s
opening shot when negotiations
with the Warsaw Pact begin next
year.

Until now the Soviet leader,
Mikhail Gorbachov, has made
all the running. At the Wash¬
ington summit last December he
proposed to President Reagan
that the imbalance between the
two sides - such as the Soviet
superiority in tanks and artillery
— should be sorted out, followed
by a cut in troop levels of
500,000 on each side. He then
talked of both sides reducing to a
level Sufficient to maintain a
purely defensive capability.

It was one of Gorbachov's
grand gestures. But in arms
control terras it was meaning¬
less. Where was the detail?
Which tanks would he agree to
remove? Would they be the ones
peering over the border in East
Germany in combat-ready units ■
or perhaps the thousands of
older generation tanks kept in
store?

Nato nulitary chiefs have
always emphasized that merely

Michael Evans assesses the conflicting approaches to troop cuts

Fine sums in no man’s land

reducing numbers would not
lead to greater security. The
object is to eliminate the ability
to cany out a surprise attack and
breakthrough, a capability which
the Warsaw Pact countries cur¬
rently have. To achieve that goal
in an aims control framework, it
is necessary to remove whole
units.

Nato’s task was dearly to
counter the Gorbachov offer
with some detailed poposais.
These are now nearing comple¬
tion. Officials in Brussels today
will be attempting to finalize the
package so that it can be studied
by the foreign ministers at the
North Atlantic Council meeting
tomorrow and Friday.

It has not been an easy
exercise. Some Nato members,
such as Norway and Turkey,
have expressed concern that too
much attention was being fo¬
cused on forces in Central
Europe. They have a legitimate
argument. If there are to be cuts,
they must be shared equally, so
that the north and south flanks
benefit too.

The Nato package also has to

satisfy several criteria. It must be
equitable, fair and sustainable. It
must also be presented in a way
that will be easily digested by the
general public.

Gorbachov has already agreed
the basic principle that the side

ties will also have to mak?the
biggest cuts. Bat if the Nato
proposals are weighted too
heavily against the Soviet
Union, Gorbachov win be able
to reject them without losing
much face.

So Nato has to oiler something
in return. One proposal, which
seems likely to meet with the
foreign ministers’ approval, is
for each side to scale down to
20,000 tanks. That would mean
a 10 per cent reduction for Nato.
if the stored tanks are included.
But for the Warsaw Pact it would
mean withdrawing more than
31,000. Could Gorbachov agree
to such a move? And what about
the more restless members of the
Warsaw Pact? They have already
indicated that when the new
Conventional Stability Talks
start in Vienna next year, they

will expect to take a much more
independent line than they did
in the previous non-nuclear
arms negotiations, the fruitless
Mutual Balanced Force Reduc¬
tion (MBFR) talks.

Gorbachov will have to take
into account a whole number of
difficult political arguments. For
example. Soviet troops are not
deployed in Eastern Europe
merely to face up to Nato. They
also have a constabulary role.
What repercussions would there
be if Soviet garrisons were
withdrawn from disaffected
countries such as Hungary?

On the face of it, Nato has
little to offer Gorbachov in terms
of force reductions, because all
the advantages are on the side of
the Warsaw Pact. The Soviet
military keep arguing that Nato
has more “strike” aircraft.-But
that argument holds water only
if you remove from the counting
roles all the Soviet aircraft
assigned to an air defence role.
Thai makes little sense, es¬
pecially since most aircraft today
have a multi-role capability.

However, the alliance holds

one trump card. Tire choice of
Gorbachov as Soviet leader in
1985 signalled the Politburo's
recognition that the Soviet
Union was in deep trouble,
especially economically. There
has been consistently strong
support in the Politburo since
I98S for modernization of ike
Soviet economy.

This remains Gorbachov’s
greatest political asset...and
also the West’s. For it is clear
that, above a 0, Gorbachov has to
avoid large increases in military
expenditure as the Soviet econ¬
omy i$ revived. At present the
Soviet Union is continuing to
produce enough tanks and artil¬
lery to re-equip about one di¬
vision and four artillery regi¬
ments every month.

Unlike nuclear weapons, con¬
ventional forces are money-
intensive. It is in Gorbachov's
interest to demobilize some of
the 37,000 Soviet tanks in
Europe and the troops that go
with them.

So the foundation for an
equitable arms control agree¬
ment already exists. Gorbachov

may dispute the force compari¬
sons published by Nato Ian
month which claimed Warsaw
Pact superiority in every field.
But he cannot afford to reject out
of band a proposal for both sides
'to have equal numbers of tasks
and artillery. Equality of forces is
a difficult concept to oppose,
especially if you are trying to win
the hearts and minds of Western
public opinion. This is particu¬
larly true for Gorbachov, whose
foreign policy is based on an
apparent commitment to aims
control and peace.

Although Nato now appears to
be better prepared for tire battle
ahead, especially if the foreign
ministers are able to approve tire
Brussels package, there is one
unknown factor which causes
anxiety within the alliance. What
if Gorbachov were to make some
unilateral gesture, such as the
withdrawal of a division or two
from Eastern Europe? Would
this severely test tire cohesion of
the alliance?

It cannot be ruled put. Perhaps
Gorbachov might hint at such a
move when he addresses the
United Nations General Assem¬
bly in New York today. But it
seems unlikely. Facing serious
domestic problems and a
continuing reluctance on tire
part of the Soviet military tojive
anything away, he can ill afford
to be too generous to Nato
without getting something in
return.

Conor Cruise O’Brien

Discord that pays dividends

M rs Thatcher is ac¬
cused of over-re¬
action in her deal¬
ings with the Bel¬
gian and Irish gov¬
ernments over the Ryan extra¬
dition affair. Somehow, we
never seem to hear about under-
reaction as a danger in the
response of a democratic govern¬
ment to a terrorist campaign.
Yet it may be that under¬
reaction, combined with in¬
cessant warnings against the
dangers of over-reaction, has
done more than anything else to
enable the Provisional IRA to
sustain its terrorist offensive for
nearly two decades.

Mrs Thatcher has, in the past,
been uncertain in some of her
responses to terrorism, as in her
government's deplorable re¬
sponse when the Libyan em¬
bassy became a base for terrorist
activity in the heart of London.
On Northern Ireland, she mid
her senior advisers, about four
years ago, began to listen to tire
siren song of John Hume, leader
of the SDLP. The song is entitled
“The Alienation of the Minor¬
ity”. Hie singer implores tire
Government to end this alien¬
ation, in which case peace and
harmony will ensue. On tire
other hand, to seek “to impose a
military solution” would lead to
disaster.

In short, the best way to
combat the IRA is through con¬
cessions to Northern Ireland’s
Catholics. And these concessions
often turn out to be measures —
like the abolition of supergrass
trials — which in feet make it
harder to combat the IRA
When she signed the Anglo-
Irish Agreement at Hillsborough
just over three years ago, Mrs
Thatcher was listening to that
song, captivated by the melody,
and not quite understanding the
words. As time went on, how¬
ever, she seems to have become
aware—though without acknow¬
ledging the feet - that she had
been conned

For tire British, “ending the
alienation of the minority' im¬
plied that the Catholic/naiional-
ist minority, once certain
grievances trad been removed,
would become loyal British citi¬

zens, cooperating with the sec¬
urity forces. But for the
Calholic/nationalist side, the
end of alienation meant some¬
thing quite different It meant a
prolonged agenda, consisting of
a series of official concessions to '
them, without their ever co¬
operating with the security forces -
in the struggle against the IRA
And the last item on that long
agenda is a united Ireland, which
is also the IRA objective. The
IRA and the alienation-ending
specialists of the SDLP have a
common objective, and their
differences about means are
more apparent than reaL As Sinn
Fein's Danny Morrison pointed
out this year — during that long
round of Sinn Fein-SDLP talks-
— the SDLFs political power
“rests on the back of the IRA”.

Near the end of the second
year of the agreement, Mrs
Thatcher had to be aware of Sir
Charles Carter’s dictum that in
Northern Ireland it “alienated
the majority without reconciling
the minority”. During the first
two years of the agreement, the
IRA offensive, far from subsid¬
ing, increased in intensity, caus¬
ing more deaths than in the two
years immediately before it
Then, just a week before the
second anniversary of the agree¬
ment, came tire Remembrance
Day massacre at Enniskillen.

A fter Enniskillen, the
Government changed
course, without an¬
nouncing that it was
doing so. The idea of
fighting the IRA by actually
fighting was back in favour. The
belief that the best way to
combat the IRA was through
concessions to the “constitu¬
tional nationalists” had been
discredited, as a result of bitter
experience.

It is against that background
that Mrs Thatcher’s sharpish
treatment of Charles Haughey
over Ryan has to be seen. Once it
became apparent that the
Hillsborough agreement, in its
effects^inside Northern Ireland,
bad failed, then almost all that
remained in its favour, from a
British point of view, was as an
instrument for security co-opera-

.l&rHESb

tion between London and Dub¬
lin against the IRA And the test
of reliability of that co-operation
has become the readiness, or
unreadiness, of the Dublin
authorities to extradite to Britain
perrons wanted there to face trial
for IRA-related offences. So tire
Ryan case is a lest of such
validity as the agreement may
retain.

It has been rightly said that
Irish public opinion is ambiva¬
lent about extradition. It is also
argued that, because of that
ambivalence, this question must
be handled with the greatest tact
and diplomacy, which have not,
in the Ryan case, been forthcom¬
ing from Mrs Thatcher. Now, the
ambivalence is a feet, but the

inference that ambivalence must
of its nature be tactfully handled
does not follow. The manage¬
ment of other people's ambiva¬
lence is an art which may, on
occasion, require a brusque re¬
buke, rather than a gentle hint
And the Ryan case is surely an
occasion for the brusque ap¬
proach. Mrs Thatcher has the
right instinct there.

There is clearly a prima facie
case against Ryan as a probable
specialist in the service of the
IRA terror campaign. The Bel¬
gian police found him in flagrant
possession of various articles,
including tuning devices, whose
presence at his place of residence
hardly admits of an innocent
explanation.

In the circumstances, Britain
was entitled to expect help from
other governments which pro¬
fess to be committed to the
struggle against terrorism in
bringing Ryan to trial. In this
case, Britain got no such co¬
operation from either Belgium
or tire Republic of Ireland The
action of the Belgian govern¬
ment was abject. It got him off its
hands in such a manner as to run
no risk of revenge against Bel¬
gian targets. Sofer the conduct of
the Irish government has been,
at best, disquieting and equivo¬
cal. No final verdict on its
conduct is possible, as Ryan may
yet, after ail, be extradited.

It is argued that, however
understandable Mrs Thatcher’s

anger, her expression of that
anger, in dealing with Haughey,
has been counter-productive,
since it united the opposition
and Irish public opinion behind
him. But while plausible, this
interpretation is superficial, as
Haughey knows better than any¬
one. Those who blame Mrs
Thatcher today may Marne
Haughey tomorrow.

A mbivalence tends to
manifest itself in
successive and con¬
tradictory ways. This
has appeared in the
course of Anglo-Irish relations
over tire last 30 years. Anti-
British peaks — for example,
immediately after Bloody Sun¬
day in 1972, and after the deaths
of the hunger strikers — are
followed, not indeed by pro-
British peaks, but by sustained
efforts, on the Irish side, to get
relations back to normaL
That Anglo-Irish relations
should be good is even more
important for the Irish than for
the British. At tire time of the
Anglo-Irish Agreement, polls
showed that it was overwhelm¬
ingly popular in the Republic,
not because people thought it
would help in Northern Ireland
— few believed it would — but
because they thought it would
put relations between Dublin
and London on a more satisfac¬
tory basis.

That is why tire agreement
was, and is, popular in the
Republic, and why Haughey did
not attempt to dismantle iL If
Haughey’s handling of tire extra¬
dition question is felt in the
Republic to be causing a
substantial deterioration in An¬
glo-Irish relations, then his
leadership is likely to be called
into question once more. The
feet that he is again taking a
stand that is popular with the
IRA will not, if sustained, be
popular with most of his voters.

In short, if Anglo-Irish rela¬
tions axe to improve, in the
longer term, then periods of
disimprovemehi in the shorter
term may help towards better
understanding and better co¬
operation, even in tire matter of
extradition.

Commentary • Robin Oakley

Benefit and doubter

The egg affair demonstrates the
danger of having Edwina Currie
in your team. But the lady does
reach the parts that other min¬
isters do noL And she signals
directly what other ministers
only dare whisper from behind
the anas.

I suspect, therefore, that her
remarks on child benefit to a
BBC radio interviewer at tire
weekend represent the start of a
Tory row that will reverberate
still when we are all tucking into
omelettes again with never a
thought of salmonella.

Child benefit, she said, was
“not doing the job it was
intended to do”. It bad been
brought in to help children at a
time of bad diet and dangerous
diseases such as diphtheria and
polio. Now many wealthier fam¬
ilies no longer needed the money
and used it only to foster
unhealthy habits.

Leaving aside the question of
how rampant diphtheria, polio
and malnutrition were when the
Labour government in 1977
developed a Tory idea and
introduced child benefit, Mrs
Currie's implication was dear.
Child benefit, frozen for the
second year in a row, should be
allowed to wither on the vine.
Then, after tire next election, the
1987 manifesto commitment to
continue paying it “as now” can
be scrapped and foe money
sensibly redirected to those in
genuine need.

That is the growing belief of
some in foe Treasury and of
Tories who buy the “Duchess of
Westminster” argument that we
don’t need an expensive benefit
that goes to tire super-rich along
with the struggling. But their

conviction that child benefit is
on tire way out may be a little
premanpe. They have not reck¬
oned with the corps of Conser¬
vative women, or with the group
of Tory MPs and at least one
minister who ana prepared to put
their careers on the line on this
issue. And can they really be sure
of one key factor — having the
leader of the “party of the
famil y” with them?

After all, it was not some wet
but Mrs Thatcher herself who
boasted in the Commons is June
1983 that the increase in child
benefit to its highest ever real
value was “evidence of our com¬
mitment to the family”. It was
she who emphasized that any
system of taxing child benefit
“would inevitably be more com¬
plicated than the present sys¬
tem”.

And it was Mrs Thatcher who
made the case for child benefit as
concisely as anyone when she
told MPs: “It has for long been
the view , of all parties that our
tax and benefit system should
recognize the needs of families
with children, and should
differentiate between such fam¬
ilies and those without respons¬
ibilities for children. Child tax
allowances achieved this but
gave no help to families below
the tax threshold. Family allow¬
ances did not recognize the first
chiKL Quid benefit, which re¬
placed both allowances, was
introduced with the support of
all parties.”

Child benefit for some 12
million children goes to about
6.8 million households at a cost
of nearly £5 billion a year. It is
universal, tax-free and ill-tar¬
geted- It doesn't help the poorest

since those out of work and on
income support have their bene¬
fit cut by tire equivalent amount
For years Treasury ministers
have longed to abolish it, tax it,
or daw it back from the rich. But
even freezing it has led to Tory
rebellions in the Commons.

Why? To answer that we have
to go back to Mis Currie's point
about the “job it was intended to
do”. And that job was not just to
help the poorest but to help fa¬
milies. As Norman Fowler said
when he was trying to reform the
social security payments jungle,
it “provides the only recognition
in tire tax or benefit system of the
extra cost of having children.”
And child benefit is one of the
cheapest ways of hdping low-
paid families, especially when
two incomes with two mouths to
feed have become one income
with three mouths to feed.

Some do not see children as a
national asset and argue that
those who become parents are
choosing an expensive hobby
which they should pay for them¬
selves. But there is no sign yet
that Mrs Thatcher shares that
view. She has agreed that child
benefit, at £7225 to all, is better
than the child tax allowance
which it replaced. After ail, that
gave the Duchess of Westmin¬
ster and others on higher-rate
taxes more titan average famil¬
ies. And many Tory women root
for child benefit because it is
paid directly to foe mother.
Studies show that women are fer
readier than men to spend such
money on a child’s much needed
pair of shoes; quite apart from the
“hidden poverty” problem of
women with mean husbands.

Child benefit is paid swiftly, a

point of some significance in our
divorce-ridden society when a
deserted mother may suddenly
be left penniless with mouths to
feed Take-up is 100 per cent
compared with foe 50 or 60 per
cent take-up of means-tested
benefits such as family income
supplement which can mean that
children go hungry because of
parents’ pride or ignorance.

In many ways it seems logical
that child benefit should be
taxed. That could save some £1
billion a year for spending on the
truly needy. But how easy will it
be for the “party of the family”,
after all its tax-cutting, to start
taxing families with children
more than families without
children?

Those who have discussed the
issues at regional conferences
and women's dub suppers have
no doubt that the legions of Tory

women are ready to swine into
action again if the future of child
benefit is threatened. And in a
parliamentary session which
leaves potential Tory rebels little
to bite on save soccer identity
cards, child benefit unites voices
from the Tory left and right.

There is a perfectly respectable
case for scrapping child benefit,
ifthe decision is accompanied by
foe right action to meet the
accompanying problems. What
is making the Tory troops rest¬
less is that they keep getting a
whiff of plans to do away with
the benefit without being given
any dear idea of what might
replace it If the Government
does want to move in that
direction, the time has surely
come for it to come out from
behind'the arras and make those
arguments openly.

DEC 7

ON THIS DAY

1882

When Anthony Trollope died
The Times printed not only a
long obituary (of which this is on
extract), but also a leading
article. In each case his novels
were examined critically and, in
the main, favourably. Both arti¬
cles also praised his human
qualities . Many authors are ad¬
mired but by no means alt are
liked, even loved.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Our readers will hear with deep
regret of foe death of Mr An¬
thony Trollope. Seized suddenly
at the dinner table, only a very
few weeks ago, with something in
the nature of a paralytic attack,
from the first, anxiety was felt as
to his recovery.

Mr Trollope was far from being
an old man, and might well have
looked forward to farther years of
activity. He was bom on foe 24th
of April in the famous “Waterloo
year”, and was a eon of the gifted
lady who wrote “Widow Barn-
aby", and whose observations on

foe mannra nf wit Tranaatla ntw.
kinsfolk caused such fore in¬
dignation to the citizens of the
Union. He had been educated atr
Winchester and Harrow; arid
shortly after leaving school, was
appointed to a d p tta h y in the
Peat Office...

Of his novels we must say that

he was never guilty of the deadly
mistahtt of becoming Ain by
a iming at being over-deep or
metaphysical, and he had cul¬
tivated the faculty of being
entertaining. And within certain
definite lfanito, thrmg h fog limits
were no wmmn* n a rrow, foe
range of versatility was wonder¬
ful- The books that first brought
him substantial profit and fa***
were “The Warden”, and“Bar-

chester Towers” which are eccle¬
siastical rather thsn religious.
We might have fancied that the
author had been swaddled in
surplices and cradled to the
cawing of the rooks in some
shady cathedral dose. When
asked how he managed to
himself so at home among thy
clergy, he answered that be had
trusted less to knowledge than to
invention. As for his doctors,
what can be better fo*n his
representations of consultations
and death-bed scenes? He has
enriched our English fiction with
ch a r ac t ers destined to
survive...Thera is that most
autocratic among ecclesiastical
dignitaries, the Rev Mre Proudie,
the very much better half of the
Bishop of Barchester. There are
fascinating gewnpa lilro Mr
Sowerby and commercial trav¬
ellers like Moulder; there are
nouveau riches like Scatcherd

Miss Dunstable; and such

m ii w i uu i t ma m matueniy
and good-humoured ixmoc
Lucy Robartes and
Crawky and Lifer Dale,
surprise us as being i
rather than idealized by a:
aged gentleman. In our <
andj. we believe, in hia a

most perfect novel Mr 1
ever wrote was his “Last
Wa of Bareet” and it
defect was foe introducti
«bsidiary stoiy to spin g
the regulation three- voUid
th- Mr Trollope has gone

wfflbe hard to fill his plao
brightest among tha conti
of fictiontoSaTWi

periodicals. But those w
miss him most are foe
pereonal friends to whom
endeared by his kindly
and his genial manners; j
cannot resist a maUwwhq
pidon that if he had id
little sooner he might
spared to us foe longer....

T

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 1988

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THE BIG S ACK

for one respected Gty institution the waves
from the Big Bang of October 1986 and the Big
Crash of October 1987 have reached the
of the pool; 450 dealers and support staff from
the once great banking house of Morgan
Grenfell are to lose their jobs.

- l The sackings yesterday were no more than
the City had been expecting. The amount of
business which is currently available to the
securities houses is a mere fraction of that
which they need to cover their overheads.

_ All the big houses have been holding back,
waiting for somebody else to admit defeat. The
news that tire first to lose its nerve was Morgan
Grenfell will raise few eyebrows inside the
Square Mile. The company had ambitions
beyond its means. But the loss to market-
making of so prestigious a name will certainly
bring home to outsiders how risky the City
became after Big Bang. Those who envied the
fast cars and salaries of the dealers may now
take a rather different attitude to their letters of
notice.

practices. To cut short a legal action over those
practices, the Stock Exchange agreed to allow
outsiders to move into and break up the
established cartel.

Estimates of the degree of losses bei n g
suffered by the securities industry as a whole
run up to £500 million a year. None of the big
firms is making an adequate return on capital.
Across the City, from Docklands to Victoria,
vast, expensive dealing rooms stand, not idle,
but half empty. A system designed to handle
£2.5 billion of share trading every day is barely
ticking over at half that level
One leading securities house, Barclays de
Zoete Wedd, has admitted that it costs
£750,000 per day to cover its overheads, to
keep its screens alight and its dealers at their
desks. At present, the commission income of
the whole City is only twice that figure.

■ To trace the origins of today’s troubles one
has to look behind Big Bang to the deal done
between the Government and the former
chairman of the Stock Exchange, Sir Nicholas
Goodison. Until two years ago, stockbrokers
operated as a large cottage industry, with great
economy of capital and still greater restrictive

CALCULATING ERRORS

The miscalculation at the Royal Devon and
Exeter Hospital which led to 207 patients being
given excessive doses of radiation was a tragic
accident The health authority has accepted “a
breach of duty” as well as 21 recommendations
for the future.

; It is to be hoped that the action taken locally
and the measures introduced nationally by the
Department of Health will restore public
confidence in both the hospital and the therapy
involved. That may not be easy.

The failures occurred at almost every stage.
The overdoses were caused by a wrongly
calibrated telecobalt machine. This implies an
error by the man who was responsible and an
inadequate system for checking and cross¬
checking the instrumentation.

This has been partially attributed to staff
shortages. In a department treating as many as
1,600 patients annually, there should have
been two medical physicists plus the head of
the department. In feet there was only one —
and a departmental chief who was qualified in
a related discipline rather than the precise one
of radio-therapy.

Whatever the strength of this factor, the
original fault was compounded by an
inexplicable delay, first in realizing that
anything was wrong and then in identifying the
cause of it Even after a staff nurse reported
alarming symptoms among some of the
patients in her charge, almost a fortnight
elapsed before the faulty calibration was
detected.

A further 10 days went by before the errors in
dosage were made known. The full scale of the
disaster did not become dear until yesterday

when the two official reports were finally
published. According to one of the reports, by
Professor Sir Bryan Thwaites, the confusion
over numbers arose because of the failure of
consultants to check all their patients’ notes.

The insensitive way in which the patients
were allowed to learn (through television) of
the error, suggests a failing which lies beyond
the realm of manpower and money. It implies
a bureaucratic failure which has been apparent
throughout this unhappy affair

There remains the sensitive issue of
compensation. This should be both swift and
generous. Given the authority's readiness to
meet its obligations, there is no reason why in
this case it should not be so.

But the events serve to resurrect the question
of a national “no fault” compensation scheme
as put forward by the Pearson Commission 10
years ago. Operated as a form of insurance,
funded by the medical and pharmaceutical
organizations, it would provide those who
have suffered through medical accidents, a
speedier and surer form of compensation than
at present

Victims too often have to start litigation to
prove liability — and risk heavy legal costs. A
“no fault” scheme would cut waiting time and
ensure that the money went directly to the
victim, and not to teams of lawyers.

Yesterday’s statement by Mrs Currie on
behalf of the Department of Health acknowl¬
edged that there were lessons to be learnt That
is true. But a more equitable general scheme of
compensation deserves adding to the Govern¬
ment’s agenda.

THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT

Each utterance from the National Curriculum
Council produces howls of unreasonable
■ protest in reply. If Mr Kenneth Baker is really
aiming to produce a nation of guaranteed
Nobel and Booker prize-winners, he will,
indeed, turn out a failure. If by more modest
criteria he is to be judged, he stands to succeed.

When his distinguished predecessor, Sir
Keith Joseph, laid the foundations for both the
national curriculum and the GCSE, employers
were becoming increasingly disturbed at the
educational standards of school-leavers. They
were demanding that 16-year-olds applying for
jobs were literate and numerate, understood
the new technologies and had a grasp of basic
science. Parents simply wanted their children
to do as well as they could.

That is what the national curriculum, with
its accompanying assessment tests, is setting
out to achieve. The pressure groups are already
hard at work to prove that higher aims are not
being met.

: The Engineering Council ted the attack
* yesterday, accusing Mr Baker of creating a
loophole in the national curriculum by
insisting that some pupils should spend less
time studying science than others. Mr Jack
Straw, riding on their coat-tails, has Claimed
wildly that the proposed new “short science
course” was being used as a way of solving
teacher shortages.

Their argument is that the short course of
12.5 per cent of the timetable undermines the
notion of science for all and will not prepare
people for A levels in the single sciences so that
they can move on to university. Until now,
however, many pupils have been doing no
science at all. The short course migh t
encourage young people eventually to choose a
career in science - something they would
never have considered before.
i These same reluctant scientists could easily

have been put off science altogether had they
been forced to attend classes taking up time
that could have been better spent by them
l ear nin g a modern language. The really keen
scientist can spend even more than 20 per cent
of his time in the school laboratory by using
some of the 30 per cent of the timetable that
will fall outside the national curriculum.

Critics originally complained that th e na t¬
ional curriculum would dominate the time¬
table, squeezing out minority subjects and
inhibiting innovation. They now seem to be
saying that insufficient time is being allowed
for their own favoured subjects.

The National Curriculum Council itself
insisted on rehearsing the arguments as to why
the “long science” course would be better. This
point is readily accepted. But Mr Baker also
has to accept realistically that the majority of
pupils will opt for the short course because it
fits more easily with other pressing demands
on school time.

Despite the best efforts of a resistant
educational establishment, the Education Re¬
form Act is gradually moving from the statute
book into the classroom. The final decisions on
the precise nature of science and mathematics
courses for five to 16 will be published in the
spring, with English and craft design technol¬
ogy following during the year. A working party
on history is being set up. Language and
geography will follow.

Earlier groups were often not rigorous
enough in setting out what children should be
taught and too imprecise when it came to
setting tasks to determine exactly what
children knew. The new groups should accept
from the beginning that it is not just Mr Baker
who is keen to put traditional methods back in
the classroom, even if they do not fit the
ideology of the sixties when the educational
establishment received its training.

Personal touch

From MrJ . 7 »*. Veoll

remember, for example, John and
Mary or their whereabouts.

Sir. Almost a year ago (December
11,19S7) Dr Lionel Dakers wrote
to the effect that he was unable to
quickly identify the senders of
quite a number of Christmas cards,
be received because he could not

Perhaps people sending cards to
Dr Dakers this year, and who are
not too sure that he will remember
Them, would like to adopt my
system and use the ubiquitous
printed gummed label, not on the
card itseft for to my mind this

destroys the personal touch, but
on the inside of the envelope in
which the card is despatched, a
method which is both discreet and
effective.

Yours sincerely,

J. T. W. VEALL,
17HaxrisonCIose,

Horacaslle, Lincolnshire.
November 25.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Sterilisation without giving consent Mental care in the community

Into an edifice, supported perhaps by £500
million of partnership capital, there roared
clearing banks, American, European and
Japanese finance houses. They pumped in
billions, inflating salaries and spending wildly
on offices and computers.

They made the mistake, as Morgan Grenfell
made the mistake, of believing that business
would grow and grow. For a while, they
appeared to be right In the months after Big
Bang, business soared.

Commission income, however, was always
hard to come by. The big investing institutions,
the pension funds and the insurance com¬
panies, played one hungry investment house
off against another and extracted tighter and
tighter terms of trade. When Big Bang turned
to Big Crash on October 19 1987, their income
crumbled.

The big eight securities houses which
account for three quarters of the business are
likely to stand their ground and dug it out. like
the corner grocers of a generation ago,
however, the smaller firms, even those owned
by wealthy conglomerates, are set to see their
position steadily worsen. For the American
banks, it will be a familiar pattern. The same
thing happened on Wall Street in the 1970s.

Again, just like the supermarkets, market
shares wul be decided by a combination of
price and service. The price war has already
begun. The big market makers are forced to
“narrow the spread” (the difference between
bid and offered prices) to buy the business.

This does nothing to generate additional
business. It merely redistributes it around the
increasingly desperate players. Job losses in the
City, already counted in thousands, may reach
50,000. But when capacity is brought more into
line with demand, those that remain will be all -
the healthier for it

From Miss Sarah Leigh
Sir, In your report of December 3
on the case of "F”, a severely
mentally-handicapped woman of
35 who, a judge has ruled, may be
lawfully sterilised, you quoted Sir
Brian fox's call for an inquiry into
this case and his disbelief that such
an order could be made.

1 acted as Fs solicitor, on her
mother's instructions, in making
this application to the court, and
protest on her behalf against any
suggestion that this decision has
not been very carefully made.
Everyone concerned has treated F
as a patient entitled to medical
treatment like other women in the
same medical situation, but un¬
able to make her own decision to
undergo it The derision has been
made for her with great care by a
High Court judges Mr Justice Scott
Baker.

F is having the operation
because she needs contraception
and other methods are no longer
medically possible. Her doctors
are no longer prepared to prescribe
the contraceptive pill because
(apart from her age) tests showed
that it was adversely affecting her
physical

The only alternative would
have been to wait until she
actually got pregnant, in which
case she might have found herself
carrying the child for several
months before an order to ter¬
minate the pregnancy could be
obtained. We were advised that
this would be dangerous for her
health.

Fs mother wanted her instead
to have a laparoscopic sterilisation
(a simple and virtually painless
procedure). Her medical and legal
advisers all felt that the decision
should not be made under acute
pressure of time. It took just over
six months from the time we were
instructed to the making of the
order.

We interviewed three doctors

Campus free speech

From Mr Edward Thomas
Sir, It is only a year or so since the
Government introduced the
“code of conduct” to maintain the
principle of free speech in institu¬
tions of higher education. How¬
ever, recent incidents demonstrate
that further measures need to be
taken in order to combat student
rioting.

On December 1, Mr Henri
Raubenheimer spoke at South¬
ampton University oh ways of
ending apartheid. Since he was a
counsellor from the South African
Embassy, the meeting was contro¬
versial and classified as a “des¬
ignated event” Towards the end
of the meeting >he chairman
ordered stewards to eject an
individual under the “code”.
Within seconds proceedings had
degenerated into a brawl and
several stewards were attacked by
a number of students.

This event and others, such as
the Tebbit fiasco at North London
Polytechnic, indicate that the
Government must take action. It
is totally unacceptable that stu¬
dents and university admin¬
istrators acting as stewards should
be subjected to this kind of
violence. The time has come for
the police to assume these law-
enforcing responsibilities and en¬
sure that molestation is not
allowed to hijack freedom of
speech.

Yours sincerely,

EDWARD THOMAS,
Southampton University,
Students Union,

University Road,

Highfield,

Southampton, Hampshire.

Decern berZ

Opera rebuff

From Mr Denis Vaughan
Sir, Bernard Levin’s renunciation
(December 2) of half the im¬
portant operatic repertoire is
understandable. Once he has ex¬
plored an opera completely,
revisiting it is like trying to revive
an old love affair.

But his feeling of surfeit is really
a comment on current perfor¬
mance standards. Very good gen¬
eral standards throughout Europe
do not replace the element of the
unforgettable, which really should
characterise some part of every
performance. Every opera at its
highest should be a vehicle for this
stillness.

If a sense of timelessness is
achieved, only for a few moments
in an evening's opera, one can
retun) to it untold times, listening
through the outer apparatus of the
work to the real message of the
music inside. The voice can
achieve this better than any other
instrument.

Dame Joan Sutherland once
said to me: “AH I’m interested in
is being able to float the voice.

Namibian outlook

Front Mr Randolph Vigne
Sir, After ceaseless efforts to
discredit Swapo as the .national
liberation movement of Namibia,
the weapons of Mr Robert Cham¬
bers (November 24) are un¬
changed — with his abusive
allegations against Swapo, which
even the South African Anny see
as the future Government of
Namibia. The substance of these
attacks Swapo has dealt with again
jmri again, often through visits of
observer delegations to its exile
centres.

Such abuse is juxtaposed with
praise for the Namibians who
mmp» 10 terms with South African
occupation. Any hope that Mr
Chambers’s organization wul al¬
low the democratic process to be
the judge in his case against Swapo

and four nurses concerned in her
care, most of whom have cared for
her for a number of years. We
communicated every hem of
information obtained to the Of¬
ficial Solicitor' (who acted as
amicus ) so that any argument
against the operation could be
ventilated in court.

Wc instructed as expert a
professor in mental handicap who
is known to have been resistant to
derisions to sterilise in other cases
and told her that we wanted an
entirely independent report on
what was right for F- She read Fs
medical notes, interviewed ber
and the people caring for her, and
came to the conclusion that
sterilisation was the the only
sensible solution.

The judge then spent a week
listening to evidence from a total
of six doctors and one nurse,
covering every relevant detail of
Fs gynaecological and psychiatric
needs and treatment, and argu¬
ment from counsel instructed by
us, the health authority concerned,
and the Official Solicitor. He also
came to the conclusion that it was
right for F to have the operation.

Sir Brian's concern about the
state of the law is entirely under¬
standable; there is no legal
machinery for obtaining consent
to give non-emergency treatment
to patients who cannot themselves
consent to it (There is no one who
could lawfully consent to my
client taking the contraceptive
pill, for example.) This means that
mentally-handicapped people do
not get access to medical treat¬
ment on the same terms as the rest
of us. But in this particular case I
suggest that the last thing F needs
is another inquiry.

Yours faithfully,

SARAH LEIGH,

Lrighs (Solicitors),

37 Gray's Inn Road, WCI.
December 5.

From the Director of the Poly¬
technic of North London

technic of North London
Sir, Your Diary column (Novem¬
ber 25) mentioned the invitation
by the PNL Conservative students
to John Carlisle, MP, to talk on
“h uman rights” in South Africa.
The Diary also said that Mr
Carlisle would accept the invita¬
tion only “on condition” that 1
personally shared the platform
with him.

I did receive a letter from Mr
Carlisle inviting me to share his
platform to ensure that he re¬
ceived a fair hearing under the
terms of the Education Act In my
reply to Mr Carlisle J made it clear
that the Act does not require me
(or indeed any polytechnic direc¬
tor or university vice-chancellor)
to share platforms with visiting
speakers and that 1 did not intend
to do so in this case.

I assured him that the poly¬
technic would carry out its obliga¬
tions under the Act, however
repugnant! myself and many staff
and students find Mr Carlisle’s
views. In the event, Mr Carlisle
informed us yesterday that, as I
was not prepared to share his
platform, he would not be coming.

There are more than 7,500
students at PNL. All but a handful
of these, and all our 1,000 teaching
and non-teaching staff, want to get
on with their work. They are
becoming increasingly annoyed at
being used—by right and left alike
— as a battleground for their
political feuds, the place for these
is elsewhere. Education, not fringe
politics, is our business.

Yours faithfully,

LESLIE WAGNER, Director,
Polytechnic of North London,
Holloway Road, N7.

November 29.

which after all is what it’s an
about”. Von Hoffmansthal put it
in Der Rosenkavalier. '‘in dem
'Wie' — da liegt der game
Unterschied" (“in now it is done —
there lies the whole difference”).
Yours sincerely,

DENIS VAUGHAN,

41 Floral Street, WC2.

December 2.

False economy

From Professor Emeritus Peter
Clemoes

Sir, When I went into a shop the
other day I left my bicycle propped
against the kerb outside. I spent a
good deal of time inside agonizi ng
over two articles with a £20 price
difference between them, before
deciding that virtue lay in choos¬
ing the cheaper.

When I got outside I found my
bicyde had been damaged by a
passing car. It's costing me £20 to
have it put right.

Yours faithfully,

PETER CLEMOES,

14 Church Street.

Chesterton, Cambridge.
November 28.

he destroys in advance by impugn¬
ing United Nations supervision of
the forthcoming elections.

On his final statement all will
agree: Namibia must indeed be
fearful for its future. The threat of
destabilization by South Africa is,
in our view, the chief reason for
such fearfulness. Friends of Na¬
mibia must do all they can to help
defend the Namibians against
;desiabilization, perhaps first by
'identifying its agents.

Yours faithfully,

RANDOLPH VIGNE,

Honorary Secretary,

Namibia Support Committee,

PO Box 16,

London, NWS.

Letters to the Editor should carry
a daytime telephone number. They-
may he sort to b fax number —
(01)7825046.

From Mr Guy Hitchings
Sir, Robert Kilroy-Siik’s dis¬
cussion of mental care (Com¬
mentary, December 2) will do
little to dispel the "myths, prej¬
udices and fears" to which he
refers. This is because he makes
the common error of lumping
together the mentally ill and the
mentally handicapped.

In almost any context, to do this
is to mislead. When it comes to
community care, the handicapped
and the sick present two different
sets of problems, and it is im¬
portant that this be seen to be the
case.

If a distinguished journalist can
thus misinform, small wonder
that the confrised citizens of Rye
cry havoc, at the presence in their
midst of eight individuals with
Down’s syndrome and other
disabilities. These people may be
handicapped, but they are affec¬
tionate and contented, they are.
doing useful work, and in no sense
whatever are they what Mr Kilroy-
Silk calls “menially disturbed".

The mentally ill, no less than the
handicapped, require acceptance
and love and tolerance and under¬
standing from the public at large.
The first step in that understand¬
ing, however, is to recognise that
the two groups are not one and the
same.

Yours faithfully,

G. E HITCHINGS,

Spring Bank, Speldhurst,
Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

From Mr Tom Benyon
Sir, 1 refer to the correspondence
in your columns about care of the
mentally ill in the community.
The blame for their plight seems
to be placed, as ever, on the
shoulders of the Government;
however a lack of cash and interest
at Westminster does not tell the
whole story.

Another problem facing those
who are discharged from psychi¬
atric hospitals is purblind prej¬
udice from the community at
large; many people simply don't
want to see those with mental
problems in their street, and in the
shops; and they certainly don't
want them living next door.

Many of the menially ill often
find the pressures of modern
living intolerable and so they need
the support of residential homes

All British medical graduates
are required, after a university
course of at least five years, to
undergo lengthy postgraduate
training: a minimum of four years
for those who become principals
in general practice and eight or
more for specialists. Trainees
learn by participating, with grad¬
ually increasing responsibility, in
thecare of patients, for which they
are paid a salary by the NHS.

Over the past two decades the
profession (through the royal col¬
leges, professional associations
and the universities) has most
carefully defined and updated the
content and duration of training
for each branch of medicine,
monitored training programmes,
inspected posts and assessed the
progress of trainees.

Unfortunately, although GP
trainers receive an allowance,
NHS consultants are expected to
supervise and train their juniors
while caring for their patients at
the same time.

Those who are still in the
process of acquiring knowledge,
skill and judgement are likely to
make mistakes, and because medi¬
cine is now so powerful today's
errors of commission or omission
can be very serious. It is not
.surprising that although junior
doctors make up only 30 per cent
of UK-based membership of the
Medical Protection Society, they
account for over 40 per cent of its
costs.

The juniors pay a much reduced
subscription for the first six years
after qualification and the cost of
that reduction, together with the
costs of cases brought against
them, account for the high pre¬
miums asked of the rest.

Whether making the profession

Simple justice

From Mr John Kempe

Sir, The following statement was

composed by John and Henry

Lawrence on behalf of the Board

of the Punjab in India, just prior to

the Indian Mutiny over 130 years

ago:

The Board desire that substantial
justice should be plainly dealt out to
simple people, unused to the in¬
tricacies of legal proceedings. Their
aim is to avoid all technicality,
circumlocution and obscurity; to
simplify and abridge every rule,
procedure and process. They would
endeavour to form tribunals which
shall not be hedged in with forms
unintelligible to the vulgar and only
to be interpreted by professional
lawyers bui which shall be open and
accessible Courts of Justice where
every man may plead his own cause,
be confronted face to face with his
opponents, may prosecute his own
daim and conduct his own defence.

Is it possible for those commit¬
ted to English Jaw reform today lo
follow any part of this admirable
precept?

Yours eta,

JOHN KEMPE,

Maple Tree Cottage,

24 Old Leicester Road,

Wausford,

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

or hostels. That these facilities are
too few to cope with the numbers
of potential clients is portly
because of the difficulties of
obtaining planning permission ei¬
ther to establish a unit or to
expand an existing one.

The words “psychiatric” and
“mentally ill” or “drug abuse" on
planning applications draw hys¬
terical complaints to the authori¬
ties. inter alia a rise in crime
levels, drug fears, Aids, assaults on
children, all biding the real fear -
worries about house values.

There is no evidence that people
who have suffered mental illness
will be a social nuisance. But this
truth is all too often ignored by
MPs and councillors and so
planning applications are often
refused.

So perhaps the health ministers
might expose the myth that those
who have suffered from mental
illness are necessarily any more
socially aberrant than the rest of us
for the pernicious lie that it is?
Yours faithfully,

TOM BENYON (Chairman).
Homecare Residential Services pic;
Tapton Grove. Grove Road,
Brimingion,

Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
December 3.

From Dr Nigel Goldie
Sir, Jill Sherman, your Social
Services Correspondent (report,
November 28) quotes me as
providing evidence that supports
the campaign by the National
Schizophrenia Fellowship against
the closure of mental hospitals.

Certainly, in a recent study of
what has happened to a group of
former long-stay patients, I found
abundant evidence of deprivation
and a failure of community sup¬
port for people who have been
disabled by their experiences of
long-term hospitalisation.

However, what I did not find
was a desire to be living in
hospital. Instead there was a
general affirmation of the enor¬
mous sense of accomplishment
and often pleasure to be had from
living independently, despite the
odds against doing so.

Yours sincerely,

N. GOLDIE,

South Bank Polytechnic,

103 Borough Road, SEl.
■November 29.

Doctors 9 insurance

From Sir Douglas Black and Sir
John Ellis

Sir, In stating that the medical
profession should be “striving to
reduce accidents by training”, Mr
Simanowitz (November 23) shows
a remarkable ignorance of how
British doctors are prepared for
practice:

pay for the inescapable errors of
training is morally justifiable is
questionable, especially when it is
mot in its power to aher the
deteriorating conditions under
which the risk of making mistakes
and the difficulty of maintaining
close supervision are steadily
increasing.

Yours faithfully,

DOUGLAS BLACK (President,
Medical Protection Society,
1982-85),

JOHN ELLIS (President, 1985-88),
Medical Protection Society,

50 Hallam Street, Wl.

November 25.

From the Secretary of the British
Medical Association
Sir, It is wrong to suggest that the
medical profession is advocating a
system of no-fault compensation
in order to reduce the insurance
premiums that doctors pay. The
BMA has always emphasised that
the system we seek should not
prevent individuals from taking a
doctor to court, ft would, how¬
ever, help those who have suffered
injury but cannot gain redress
through the law.

The issue of medical indemnity
is complex. It is for ibis reason
that the BMA has asked that the
matter be referred to a select
committee of the House of Com¬
mons for the detailed consid¬
eration it deserves.

Yours faithfully,

JOHN HAVARD, Secretary,
British Medical Association,

BMA House,

Tavistock Square, WC1.

Ward courtesies

From Mr Douglas Lowndes
Sir, During my recent short stay in
hospital, the consultants ad¬
dressed me as “Sir”, and the
nurses as “Mr Lowndes”. I found
litis very satisfactory.

My GP, however, always calls'
me “Hello”. I hope this is not
merely to avoid saying “Good¬
bye”. 1

Yours faithfully,

DOUGLAS LOWNDES, ?

J Colville Court,

Gie3i Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
November 29.

A meal in itself

From MrJ. R. Blatherwick
Sir, My writing desk is a smallish,;
cluttered one - how clever of yoti
to know this! When 1 have my
evening meal on it whilst reading
The Times , the adverts provide'
ample space on every page to rest
my dinner plate. The articles are!
meaty enough to see me through*
my meal and finish it just before,
the correspondence page which
has no adverts on it.

Yours faithfully, *

JEREMY R. BLATHERWICK, *
96 Parsonage Lane, '

Enfield, I

Middlesex.

November 29.

Present indicative

From Mr Bryan Magee
Sir, A few years ago 1 gave an old-
friend of mine a Christmas presen l
that he regarded as so thought¬
lessly inappropriate that he gave it-
to me back, beautifully rewrapped,
but without remark, foe following*
Christmas. ,

Yours faithfully, '

BRYAN MAGEE,

Brooks’s, ;

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BUCKINGHAM PALACE
December 6: The Queen held an
Investiture at Buckingham Pal¬
ace this morning.

Mr Festus Iyayi (winner of the

attended a dinner at the Hilton
Hotel hosted by the Director of
the Scheme (Major General
Michael Hobbs).

Captain William McLean was
in attendance.

CLARENCE HOUSE
December & Lady Elizabeth
Basset has succeeded Mis Pat¬
rick GampbeU-Preston as Lady

M lij, / l| III 'IhlfjtvwtlJ FTTH1 ^ 1 il

had the honour of being re¬
ceived by Her Majesty.

Mr ‘Inoke Fatelau (Director,
Commonwealth Foundation),
who had the honour of being
received by The Queen, was
present.

The Right Hon Margaret
Thatcher, MP (Prime Minister
and First Lord of the Treasury)
had an audience of Her Majesty
this evening.

The Duke of Edinburgh,
Colonel of the Grenadier
Guards, chaired a meeting of the
Regimental Council at Bucking¬
ham Palace.

His Royal Highness, Patron
and Trustee, attended recep¬
tions at St James's Palace for
young people who have reached
the Gold Standard in The Duke
of Edinburgh’s Award. '

The Duke of Edinburgh at¬
tended a luncheon, given by the
Association of American Cor¬
respondents in London, at
Brown’s Hold, London Wl.

Mr John Haslam was in
attendance.

His Royal Highness, Patron
and Trustee, held a reception for
the Friends of The Duke of
Edinburgh’s Award Scheme at
Buckin gham Palace.

The Duke of Edinburgh,
Chairman of the Council of “A
Celebration of British Food and
Fanning 1989” later attended
the Farmers’ Club Annual din¬
ner at the Grosvenor House
Hotel, London WI.

Brigadier Clive Robertson
was m attendance.

The Duke of Edinburgh. Pa¬
tron of the British Heart
Foundation, was r epre se nted by
Colonel James Malcolm at the
memorial Service for Brigadier
Ereld Cardiff (formerly Director
of the British Heart Foundation)
whit* was held at the Guards
Chapel, today.

The Hon Mary Morrison has
succeeded Mrs John Dugdale at
Lady in Waiting to The Queen.
The Prince Edward, Chairman
of The Duke of Edinburgh’s
Award Special Projects Group,
this evening attended the Award
Scheme Friends Reception at
Buckingham Palace and then

Birthdays today

Professor T. Anderson, former
professor of Public Health, 84;
Sir Fred Atkinson, civil servant,
69; Mr Donald Crichton-Miiler,
former headmaster, Fettes Coll¬
ege and Stowe School 82; Lord
Elystan-Morgan, 56; Professor
Sir Abraham Goldberg, profes¬
sor of the Practice of Medicine,
65; Sir Bryan Hopkin, dvB
servant, 74; the Countess of
Limerick, chairman, British
Red Cross Society, 53; Major-
General ICE. Lloyd, 82; Rear-
Admiral A.F. Pugsley, 87; the
Rev R.G Trounson, principal
St Chad's College, Durham, 62;
Mr Eli Wallach, actor, 73; Miss’
Helen Watts, lieder and opera
singer, 61.

The Queen Mother.
KENSINGTON PALACE
December 6: The Prince of
Wales arrived this morning at
Tiverton Parkway in the Royal
Train.

The Prince of Wales. Duke of
Cornwall visited Duchy prop¬
erty in the Central and Eastern
Districts.

His Royal Highness, attended
by Mr David Lauda] e, later
departed from RNAS Yeovil ton
in an aircraft of The Queen’s
Flight.

The Princess of Wales named a
Protector class Customs and
Excise vessel at the Fairey
Marinteknik Shipyard, Cowes,
Isle of Wight.

Her Royal Highness, attended
by Miss Anne Beckwitb-Smith
and Lieutenant-Commander
Patrick Jephson RN, travelled
in an aircraft of The Queen’s
Flight

The Duke of Gloucester was
present this evening at a dinn er
to mark the 125th Anniversary
of the Danish Club at the
Dorchester Hotel London Wl.

Ueuteoat Colonel Sir Simon
Bland was inanendance.

The Duchess of Gloucester,
Patron, London College of
Music, was present this evening
at a concert given by the College
for the Royal Philharmonic
Society at 47 Great Marl¬
borough Street, London Wl.

Mrs Howard Page was in
attendance.

THATCHED HOUSE LODGE
RICHMOND PARK
December 6: Princess Alexan¬
dra this afternoon opened the
Richard Dimbleby Day Care
Centre, provided by the Richard
Dimbleby Cancer Fund for
cancer patients, at St Thomas’
Hospital London SE1.

Mis Peter Afia was in
attendance.

YORK HOUSE,

ST JAMES’S PALACE
December 6: The Duchess of
Kent, Patron, today visited the
Yehudi Menuhin School Cob-
ham, Surrey.

Mis Alan Henderson was in
attendance.

Anniversaries

BIRTHS; Giant Bernini, sculp¬
tor, Naples, 1598; Will Gather,
novelist, Winchester, Virginia,
1873; Stuart Davis, painter,
Philadelphia, 1894.

DEATHS: Cicero, executed,
Formia, Italy, 43 BO, Sir Peter
Lely, portrait painter, London,
1680; Meindert Hobbema, land¬
scape painter, Amsterdam,
17(19; William Bligh, admiral
captain of HMS Bounty,
London, 1817; John Flaxman,
sculptor, London, 1826; Edward
Irving, founder of the “Holy
Catholic Apostolic Church*’,
Glasgow, 1834; Kirsten Flag¬
stad, soprano, Oslo, 1962;
Thornton Wilder, novelist. New
Haven, Connecticut, 1975.

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BLUE+CROSS

Computer analysis of fossil
horses has shown that tra¬
ditional theories of evolution
may be flawed. A rapid burst
of evolution 18 million years
ago produced more than a
dozen different species of
horses, and it is commonly
held that the sudden appear¬
ance of many new species is
always accompanied by rapid
change in shape.

But new research, carried
out by Bruce J. MacFadden
and Richard C Hulbert of the
Florida Museum of Natural
History, shows that the rate of
change in the shape of horses
remained relatively stable.
This work, reported in the
December 1 issue of Nature, is
the latest in what has itself
become a long evolutionary
tine of research into the ul¬
timate pedigree of horses.

Older textbooks show a neat
line of descent from the
earliest horse Hyracotherium
—an animal about the size ofa
small dog — all the way up to
the familiar Equus of the
present day. This neat scheme
of a single line of descent was
summarized and elaborated in
the classic work of the Ameri¬
can palaeontologist George
Gaylord Simpson earlier tins
century, which had a pro¬
found influence in subsequent
decades. Simpson used the
example of horse evolution to
show how characteristics such
as size and shape changed

of fossil over long periods in ac- Simps
that tra- cordance with Darwin’s ideas. There
solution and he even estimated how diffen
rid burst long these changes took to single
on years occur. work.

than a Most horse evolution has hoise
sties of taken place in North America: mitidj
mroonly where the remains of is at tl
appear- Hyracotherium have been many
penes is found in the badlands of sen is
by rapid Wyoming, and where Equus horse-
first a ppe ar ed. Sometime in that a
carr ; ed the middle of the Miocene specia
cFadden Epoch, about 18 million years only c
•n of the ago ’ ^ fortunes of North jag bn
Natural AJMncao boises underwent a horse
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“fHSf horses evolved to replace a tav en
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size ofa were small and low-crowned, que v 1(
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of the tropical forests rather than e y oiut
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Simpson’s ideas impractical.
There were simply too many
different horses to fit into a
single evolutionary frame¬
work. Researchers now liken
horse evolution to a rather
untidy bush: Hyracotherium
is at the root, ami each of the
many different stems repre¬
sents a distinct lineage of
horse-like animals. The stem
that culminates with Equus is
special only in that it is the
only one with a living, grow¬
ing bud. All the other kinds of
horse became extinct

MacFadden and Hulbert
have now introduced a further
compticalioa, by showing that
horse evolution proceeded at
different rates at different
times. More importantly, they
show that the overall rate of
change in shape (such as the
lengthening of the skull or the
progressive loss of toes) has
very little to do with the
founding of new lineages. The
question underlying this new
work goes right to the heart of
evolutionary theory: do spe¬
cies evolve gradually, in an
orderly, linear way, or do they
arrive in clumps? And how
can we distinguish between
these two possibilities if the
rate of change in shape in the
fossils themselves (which are
all we have to go on) need not
have much direct bearing on
the matter?

Henry Gee

Today’s royal
engagements

The Queen, accompanied by the
Duke of Edinburgh, will open
the extension of tbe Silver
Jubilee walkway between Black-
friars Bridge and Westminster
Bridge at 3.00.

Tbe Duke of Edinburgh will
attend a Douglas Bader Rumda-
tion fund-raising luncheon at
the Mansion House at 12.15;
and, as Chairman of the Tiger
Oub Dawn to Dusk Com¬
petition, will pre se nt the prizes
ata dinner at Stationers' Hall at

7.15.

Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother will visit the Smitbfield
Show at Earls Court at 11.15.
The Prince of Wales w01 visit
Exeter University at 11.00;
HMS Fox at Devonport at 1.00;
and will open the new St Luke's
Hospice at Tumchapel Plym¬
outh, at 3.00.

Tbe Princess of Wales will open
the Mountain top Dry Ski Slope,
Bedcton Alps, E6, at 11.3a
The Duchess of York will open
the Robert Harvey House for
the Elderly in Bir mingham at
10J0 and the headquarters of
the Bir mingham Voluntary Ser¬
vice Council at 11.30. She win
present the award to the 1988
West Midlands Business of the
Year at the Botanical Gardens,
Birmingham, at 1230; and visit
Freshfields Social Education
Centre, Middiefield, at 2.55. _
The Princess Royal will attend
the national reception of the
Employment Service’s 1988 Fit
For Work Scheme award at
12.10, and a luncheon at Lan¬
caster House: As President of
tbe Royal Yachting Association
she win attend a council meeting
at the Royal Thames Yacht
Club at 60 Knights bridge at

4.15.

The Duke of Gloucester will
open the ■ Qiesham Leisure
Centre, Berkshire, at 11.30.

The Duke of Kent will unveil
the Briiain/Australia Bicenten¬
nial Tapestry at Guildhall at
10 . 00 .

The Duke of Kent, as Honorary
Member, will attend tbe annual
dinner of the Guild of Motoring
Writers at the RAC at 7.40.

Luncheon

HM Government
Sir Geoffrey Howe, Qc, Sec¬
retary of Slate for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs, and
Lady Howe were hosts at a
farewell luncheon held yes¬
terday at 1 Cartion Gardens in
honour of the Turkish Ambas¬
sador and Mrs GOmrukcuoglu.

Gray’s Inn

A service of thank^rang for the
life and work of Sir John
Ramsay Willis will be held in
Gray’s Inn Chapel on Wednes¬
day, December 21,1988 at 5pm.

Forthcoming marriages

Mr S.M. Tribe

and Miss EJL McMeeking
The engagement is announced
between Stewart, only son of Mr
and Mrs GN.S. Tribe, of Duff-
ield, Derbyshire, and Elizabeth
, Rena, only daughter of the late.
1 Mr and Mrs R.M. McMeeking,
of Helensburgh, Dunbarton¬
shire.

Mr N. Green
and Miss JJL Bloomfield
Tbe engagement is announced
between Nicholas, the only son
of Mr and Mrs Peter Green, of
Ealing, and Joanna, eldest
daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin
Bloomfield, of Putney.

Mr P.T. Hodder
and Miss AA Cook
The engagement is announced
between Peter, younger son of
Mr and Mrs AG- Hodder, of
Orpington. Kent, and Alisoa,
younger daughter of the late Mr
J.M. Cook, and Mis V. Cook, of
Gillingham, Kent.

Mr N.S. Salvesea
and Miss G.T. Bates
The engagement is announced
between Nigel youngest son of
Mr and Mrs J.I. McC Salvesen.

Dinners

Farmers* Club

The Duke of Edinburgh, Chair¬
man of the Council of **A
Celebration of British Food and
Farming 1989”, was a guest
speaker at the annual dinner of
the Fanners’ Club held last
night at Grosvenor House. Mr
GG.M. Gardner, president, pre¬
sided and Mr B. Dineen also
spoke. The other guests incl¬
uded:

Lord and Lady Prior. Mrs H Dtneen.
Mr and Mrs S A Gourtay. Mrand Mrs
ce Lo^sttcre and Mr and Mn M v B
Summon.

Friends of Sri LankaAssodation
Tbe High Commissioner for Sri
Lanka and Mrs Monerawela
attended tbe inaugural dinner of
the Friends of Sri Lanka Associ¬
ation held last night at ibe Royal
Over-Seas League. Sir John
Nicholas, chairman, presided.
The Duke of Edinburgh's
Award, World Fellowship
Following a reception at Buck¬
ingham Pa l ace, Mr James Gulli¬
ver was the host at a dinner in
The Carlton Club. The guests
included Sir Alistair and Lady
Frame, Conte and Contessa
Sella di Monteluce, Mr and Mis
Michael Beckett. Mr and Mrs
John McMOlian, Mr and the
Hem Mrs Eric Koops, Senhor
and Senhora Ferreira de Magal-
haes, Mr Kari Kahane, Mr and
Mrs Allison Ayida. Commander
David Newing and, representing
the International Trustees, Mr
and Mrs Hugh Hudson-Davies
and Commander and Mrs
Loftus Feylon-Jones.

Royal Society of Aits
Mr and Mrs Ronald Gerard
were guests of honour at a
dinner held at the Royal Society

of Spylaw. Kelso, Roxburgh¬
shire, and Gabrielie Tracy, only
daughter of Mr and Mrs T. John
Bates, of Eastwell Park, Ash¬
ford, Kent

MrDJL Ward

and Mrs VJVUR. Trenchard Day
The engagement is announced
between David, of Foxearth,
Sudbury, Suffolk, and Valerie,
of Moulton, Newmarket, daugh¬
ter of Colonel and MrsLane, of
Blox worth.

Mr GR- EUiss
and Miss GA. Richards
The engagement is announced
between Christopher, elder son
of Mr and Mrs R.M. EUiss.
of Shirley Hill Surrey, and
Caroline, daughter of Mr an<t
Mrs W.G Richards, Corfe,
Somerset.

Dr CE. Granger
and Miss GJL Wickenden
The engagement is announced
between Charlie, younger son of
Dr and Mrs D.E. Granger, of
Poole, Dorset, and JilL younger
daughter of Mr and Mrs GD.
Wickenden, of Cripps Comer,
East Sussex.

of Arts on Friday, December 2,
1988. Other guests included:

Dr DavM Allan. Sir Peter and Lady
Baldwin. Mr Terenca Cusn. Dame
Diana Reader Harris, the Hon Henri¬
etta Reader Harris. Mr and Mrs
Kenneth Joyner. Brigadier OJJJVL
Landy. Mr and Mrs Michael Leslie. Mr
and Mrs Oirtstaoher Lu c as. Sir Peter
and Lady Masefield. Baroness PUn aT
Wrtme. Mr and Mrs Cbrtstopher
Weaton. Mr Denis Thatcher and
others.

HM Government
Mr John Pktten, Minister of,
Stale for Home Affairs, was host ,
at a dinner held last night at
Lancaster House in honour of
Mr Frederick Korthals Altes,
Dutch Minister of Justice.
Chester Business Club
Mr Enoch Powell was the guest
of honour and principal speaker
at a dinner of the Chester
Business Qob held last night at
tbe Abbots Wdl Hotel Chester.
Mr Keith Mather, chairman,
presided

Weams’ Company
The Lord Mayor and the Sher-
ifls attended a livery dinner of
the Weavers’ Company held last
night at Vintners’ Hall and were
received by Mr MAG Win-
tenon, Upper Bailiff The speak¬
ers were the Lord Mayor, the
Upper Bailiff, Lie ut e n ant Com¬
mander J.W.T. Lewes, Upper
Warden, and Mr Alderman
Brian Jenkins.

Service dinners

The Royal Scots Dragoon
Guards

Lieutenant-General Sir Nor man
Arthur, Colonel of The Royal
Scots Dragoon Guards (Cara¬
biniere and Greys), presided at
the annual officers dinner held
last night at the Cavalry and
Guards Club.

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OBITUARIES

ALUN OLDFIELD-DAVIES
Rebuilding the post-war BBC in Wales

Mr Alim Oldfield-Davies, i

CBE, who died on December I ."£r :

oiwl fi? ume ihr* RfiPc

Mr Alim Oldfteld-Davics,
CBE, who died on December I
aged 83, was the BBC's
Controller in Wales from 1945
until 1967, and one of the
leading public figures in the
principality.

When in 1945 _ the
Controllership in Cardiff fell
vacant the BBC recognized the
need to appoint someone who
was not only an experienced
and first-rate broadcasting
practitioner, but who also
would command the con¬
fidence and regard of Welsh
people generally. It emerged
Oldfield-Davies was, without
too much debate, the best man
for the job. In the following
decades he amply justified his
appointment.

Welsh broadcasting, re¬
duced almost to elimination
during the Second World war,
was rapidly and firmly re¬
established. Oldfield-Davies,
a man of intellectual strength
and agreeable personality,
with a towering presence, was
able, in a deliberate but
friendly way, to hold tbe ring
effectively against tbe pres¬
sures of both the Welsh¬
speaking and English-
speaking sectors of Welsh
society, and to build up a
programme service of high
standard in Wales in both

The main BBC networks,
first in radio and later also in
television, soon came to rec¬
ognize the quality of the
Welsh output, and increas¬
ingly gave Welsh productions
wider distribution. Oldfield-
Davies’s BBC career reached a
climax when Princess Mar¬
garet opened the new
broadcasting centre at
Llandaff in 1966, shortly be¬
fore his retirement

He was a son of the manse,
bom on April 18,1905, across
the border in Wallasey. Chesh¬
ire. But his education was
entirely in Wales. It took him.
through a succession of
scholarships, first to the
County School at Rhondda

and then to University Coll¬
ege, Wales, at Aberystwyth.

For twelve years he taught
in Welsh schools and as a
university extension lecturer,
but was broadcasting regularly
in Welsh on current a Bairs. He
joined die BBC in 1937 in the
Education department, and
during the war held senior
posts in Wales, and later in
London. The BBC declined to
release him when the Ministry
of Information vigorously at¬
tempted to enlist his services.

Beyond the BBC in a life
dedicated to his homeland,
Oldfield-Davies was involved
in its afiairson a wide scale. In
1950 he became chairman of
the Central Advisory Council

(Wales) for the Welsh Depart¬
ment of the Ministry of
Information. Later, he served
as president of the National
Museum, and of the Welsh
Council for Education in
World Citizenship.

He was a past chairman of
the Council of Welsh Social
Services, and a former mem¬
ber of the Welsh Arts Council.
The University of Wales be¬
stowed an honorary LLD on
him in 1967. He was an
honorary member of the
Cymmrodorian Society.

Oldfield-Davies was ap¬
pointed CBE in 1955.

His wife. Lilian, pre¬
deceased him. There were no
children.

EINAR FORSETH
Swedish mosaic for Coventry Cathedral

Emar Forseth, the Swedish
painter and artist in mosaic
And stained glass, died on
December 4 at the age of 96.

Among his bat-known
works was the mosaic floor he
created for the Chapel of
Unity in the new Coventry
Cathedral after the Second
World. It was handed over at a
special ceremony in 1962 and
was the biggest single gift to
the Coventry Cathedral
project from any one nation
and came from the people and
the churches of Sweden.

Forseth had been famous
ever since he created tbe
mosaics and other decorations
for the the Golden Hall in
Stockholm’s modernist Town

Hall between 1921 and 1923.
The most important of these,
entirely filling one end wall of
the hall depicted a symbolic
figure of Stockholm with the
commerce of East and West
arriving on either tide.

Besides mosaics and stained
glass, Forseth had wide-rang¬
ing gifts including fresco and
oil painting and textile design.
Before the war be had several
shows of his paintings and
mosaics in London.

Foiseth so much admired
the new cathedral arising from
the bombed ruins, when on a
visit to Coventry post-war,
that he asked to have some of
his work incorporated into the

project and Sir Basil Spence, r
the cathedra] architect, gladly r
accepted.

Bom in Linkoping of an old
Swedish-Norwegian family,
he studied art at the Goteborg
School of Arts and Crafts and
the Swedish Royal Academy.

He then travelled widely in
England. France, Italy (where
he was particularly interested
by the mosaics) and in North .
Africa.

His earlier work had in¬
cluded mural paintings and
stained glass windows for -
hotels, schools, churches and .
hospitals as well as textiles -
and mosaics for private firms *
in Sweden.

SIR WALTER PRETYMAN
A sweetener for cars in Brazil

Sir Walter Frederick
Pretyman, KBE, a leading
sugar former and industrialist
in Brazil died in Rio de
Janeiro on December 4, at the
age of 87.

Pretyman’s alcohol refin¬
ery, the Utina Santa Cruz, was
one of the biggest in the stale
of Rio de Janeiro based in
Campos and he had been
growing sugar in that region
for over 40 years.

The son of a big former in
East Anglia and Conservative
who served in the coalition
government during the First
World War, Pretyman de¬
cided to go to Brazil in 1923
after studying agriculture at
Magdalen Couege, Oxford.

Starting first in cotton, he
opted almost by chance to join
in growing another of Brazil's
major crops, sugar, taking
over a badly indebted 10,000-
acre plaxuantion some 200
miles north ofRio. He showed
ability and soon it was doing

very well and Pretyman was
es tablish ed as one of tbe most
solid producers in the country.
When he retired earlier this
decade, making way for his
son, it was employing some
800 workers and producing
40,000 tons of sugar a year.

Pretyman's Santa Cruz also
participated notably in Brazil¬
ian efforts to use alcohol
produced from sugar to power
motor cars and launched in
the 1970s, after the snccessi ve
petrol crises, with a state-
backed programme to manu¬
facture cars with adapted
engines.

With only 20 per cent of
Brasil's consumption pro¬
duced at home the country’s
fuel import bills had soared

ala rmingl y

Although Pretyman was
publicly critical of some as¬
pects of the government’s
drive he once observed: **The
alcohol programme has a •
future. It must have. Brazil

needs every cent of foreign
exchange it can save to finance,
its development-”

Although oil prices have
since fallen, the Brazilian gov¬
ernment has maintained the
alcohol fuel programme,
largely for strategic reasons,
and last year the country's car
industry turned out over 80
per cent of its vehicles to be
driven on alcohoL
Pretyman served during the
Second World War in the
Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve and was for a time
one of “Bomber" Harris’s
ADCs, retiring with the rank
of squadron leader.

He was created KBE in
1972.

An error in telephone trans¬
mission caused us to refer to'
Professor Denis Haydon as “a
good small college man”. He"
was in feet a good college man:
in other words, a good Trinity
Hallman.

Memorial services

Brigadier EreM Cardiff
The Duke of Edinburgh was
represented by Colonel James
Malcolm at a service of thanks¬
giving for the life and work of
Brigadier Ereld Cardiff held
yesterday in the Guards Chapel
Wellington Barracks. The Rev
JA. Barrie officiated, assisted
by Prebendary Gordon Thomp¬
son. Sir Richard Lloyd, son-in-
law, and Mr David Cardiff
godson, read the lessons. Briga¬
dier Christopher Thursby
Pelham gave an address.

Mr Michael Sany
A service of thanksgiving for tbe
life and work of Mr Michael
Barry was held yesterday at the
Church of the
Conception, Farm Street. Father
Vincent Hawc, SJ, officiated.
Mr Trevor NichoUs read an
appreciation by Martin Esshn
and Non Dolet by Oliver St John
Gogarty and Miss Judy Camp-

Bridge

After a poll of players last year
the Whitdaw Cup for the wom¬
en’s bridge team championship
was held for the first time at two
centres - foe Queen’s Hotel
Eastbourne and tbe Leofric
Hotel Coventry. This new for¬
mat resulted in a record entry of
71 teams, 47 at Eastbourne and
24 at Coventry.

EMttoonB Sari Final:

Mrs G Mottan. Mrs m Jones. Mrs J
□antes. Mrs K Coward beat Mrs R
Bavin. Mrs M Mm. Mm J Ainon.
mm D Sander* by 1 Imps.

Mf*E Plumps. MM E Pritchard. Mrs
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Dodd. MM L Genoa. Mrs p pool Mr*
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fuh£ mis E r-tmxn best Mrs G
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CwHimj Semi Float
Mrs H Townsend. Mrs V AHMsob.
IW W-Aweesiafl. M» A Hunt beat
Mrs M CurmTMn B Ken. Mrs v-
Aoatwtefc. ms w w Brown By 40

Damson. Me P Qrfcfcmad.

bell read Lethe by Lawrence
Mavilis. Mr Tom Fleming read
from The Prophet by Kahlil
Gibran and Miss Anna Barry,
daughter, read an excerpt from
From the Palace to the Grove by
Michael Barry. Mr Donald Wil¬
son gave an address. Among
those present were:

(widow}. Mtw Sarah Barry
Commander and Mrs
twncK jackeon ArollNMDteiv and
sterna. MraJ r stee «isiw-in-iaw). Mr
and Mrs Ptunp Marvin. Mr William
Site. Mr C A Jackson. Mias Shuman.

Str Rqoer Cary. Sir Dick and Lady
WMfeSlr Arthur and Lady KntahL
ar Brian Rtx: (Chatman. MENCAP).

Mr Paul Fox (managing director. BBC

Aura SleaUi (chairman. Royal Acad¬
emy Of Dramatic An AsMcuiea). Mr
EMvwnoeejChtanel FMrrSevStaBJ.

Mr DnvH Turner (Sir Peter Saunders

Limited!. Mr^CouJrsiSSrMFpSS

Puam pOL Mr Leonard Mui. mt
F rancis DuiWdp. Mr and Mrs Barry
Took, Mr Richard Bebb arm mbs
G wen Watford. Mr and Mrs Richard
Paste. Mrs Trevor njc&oUs. Mr Rex
Moorf(XM Mtss B etty Baskcomb. Miss
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mUfewalcr. Mr John ArfceiL Mr

S Penfold. Mrs E McGowan tmt
EK5L5 Wade. Me SPA Pnillps, Mrs d

vs«

Tnodate and venue for the play off
E PhUUpoand Mrs M
Dtolwi has to be decided.

Appointments

S ir Francis Graham-Smith,
Astronomer Royal and Lang-
worfoy Professor of Physics and
Fro Vice-Chancellor of Man¬
chester University to be a
member of the Royal Society's
Gounci! and Secretary. He suc¬
ceeds Sir Roger Elliot, who is to
be Secretary to the Delegates of
Oxford University Press.

Peter Weitzmau QC u> be
Leader of the Oxford and Mid¬
land Circuit in succession to
Igor Judge QG

Peter MuDen. Mr and Mrs Peter
Moftau. MBS Joan Craft. Mrs Joanna
Spicer. Mrs Nancy Thomas. Mrs
Elvira Habion. Mr Raohael Jaoo. Mm
Kate Kirby. Mr Richard KUftSy; Mw
Miranda ward-Klrkby. Mias Margaret

Broome. Mr John Cain. Min Lucy de

Castro. Miss Ann Dahon. Mr Dallas
Bower. Mr John Hadley. Mr and Mrs
Shaun Sutton. Mr Peter news. Mr and
Mm Aivin RakofT. Mr Peter Black.
Mrs George More OTonll Mrs Betty
WUlUnMe. Mr John Jacobs. Mrs
Sylvia Rich. Mr John Gough and Mr
Michael Bakewen.

Professor Ernest Cotchin
A memorial service for Profes¬
sor Ernest Cotchin was held
yesterday at St Pancras Old
Church. The Rev Philip Dyson
officiated. Dr A.O. Betts, Prin¬
cipal of the Royhl Veterinary
College, and Professor J.E.T.
Jones, Head of foe Department,
of Veterinary Medicine and-
Animal Husbandry, read the
lessons. Sir David Innes Wil¬
liams, Chairman of foe Council
of the Imperial Cancer Research
Fund, and Professor Clifford
Formston gave addresses.

New bishop

Bishop Crispian Hollis has b ee n-
appointed the new bishop of foe
Roman Catholic diocese of
Portsmouth. Bishop Hollis,
aged _ 52, auxiliary bishop of'
Birmingham, is the son Of the
author Christopher Hollis and
his wife. Madeleine, both cob-*
verts to the Catholic feith.

Services

Admiral Sir Julian Oswald to be
Fira Sea Ufa and Chief of
Naval Staff on May 25 1989 in
succession to Admiral Sir Wil¬
liam Stave!ey. This appoint- 1
ment carries with it membership:
of the Defence Council and of
the Admiralty Board of the
Defence Council .

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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

The London escape speeds up

More and more
employers are
expected to leave the
capital. Christopher
Warman looks at
the reasons

T he number of jobs re¬
located outside central
London is likely to in¬
crease sharply in the next
few years, the commercial prop¬
erty consultants Jones _ Lang
Wootton forecast in their De¬
centralisation Report 1988.

Companies at present in the
City and West End of London are
committed to moving 16,000 jobs
out to the provinces and suburban
London during the next four
years, and 24 more companies are
seriously considering moving an
additional 20,000 jobs to other
parts of the country.

Although the number of em¬
ployers moving out has remained
fairly steady in recent years, the
number of staff involved in every
move is increasing. The figure for
this year is 265jobs, but next year
it mil be 443, the highest level
since the mid-1970s.

Within central London the City
continues to be the most im¬
portant source of decentralization,
accounting for nearly half of the
moves since 1981

However, the impact of decen¬
tralization in terms of total stock
has been greater in the mid-town
office market, where 7 percent of
stock has been vaca ted si n ce 1983.

Suburban London remains the
most important destination for
relocation, having been the target
of49 per cent of moves since 1983,
and within this area the Dock¬
lands continues to attract an
increasing n umb er.

Docklands has more than 20
million sq ft of space scheduled to
become available by the turn of
the century and Jones Lang
Wootton believes the area there¬
fore has considerable potential to
take an increasing proportion of
the companies decentralizing
from London.

But the survey also identifies a
ripple effect in decentralization.
Many of the Actors causing
businesses to relocate from central
London, such as escalating rents
and labour shortages, are showing
themselves within suburban areas
of the capital.

The result is that in turn
businesses in suburban London
will' increasingly want to
decentralize.

Of the moves planned, a third
will be to destinations outside the
South-East, and of that number
three-quarters will be to the
Midlands and North.

The service sector has ac¬
counted for 44 per cent of decen¬
tralizations since 1983 and will, it
is predicted, be the main propor¬
tion of businesses moving. Within
this sector banks and financial

organizations have teen in the
lead, followed by insurance
companies.

Now that the Government is
aiming to disperse key depart¬
ments to the provinces, there is
also considerable potential for
public sector relocation involving

thousands of Gvil Service jobs.
The survey has identified three
government departments plan¬
ning to move in the near fatnre.

A changing pattern is that the
number of organizations under¬
taking complete headquarters
relocations has fallen during the
past decade, with partial moves,
usually involving the relocation of
“back office" operations, amount¬
ing to more than half and expected
account for threoquarters of
moves in the future.

C ompanies give financial
reasons most frequently
for their decision to
move. Despite London
wei ghting and rising salaries,
property costs remain the prime
financial concern, and this is likely
to be fuelled in the next few years
by foe impact of foe 1990 rates
revaluation.

Growing concern over the
shortage of skilled labour within
the central London economy is
another reason.

Organizations intending to re¬
locate claim that problems in
recruiting staff have influenced
their decision to decentralize, and
are becoming increasingly im¬
portant in their choice of
destination.

Japan link
for offices at
the station

Running against the London ex¬
odus, Central and City has entered
into a joint ventee partnership
with SC Properties (UK) Ltd, a

wholly owned subsidiary of Shi¬
mizu Corporation, Japan’s leading
construction company, in a £130
million development of308,000 sq
ft of offices, envisaged right, now
raider construction at One Amer¬
ica Square by Fetich arch Street
station.

The two companies will have an
equal interest in the scheme,
although Central and City will
man a g e its project design and
development. SC Properties was
foe first of the large Japanese

contractors to open an office in riik
country. The project is foe compa¬
ny’s biggest in foe UK and its first
in foe City of London.

The site of 1J acres is bounded
by Crosswall to tire north and
America Square to tire east, and
the block is being built partly over
the station and foe adjo ining
railway viaduct.

It wQl incorporate improve¬
ments to foe station, including a
new entrance and foe converskm of
the existing railway arches into a
concourse and ticket office. The
railway arches on foe south sale of
■America Square will be converted

.j|,

into a themed restaurant centre.

It took Central and City four
years to assemble the site, and
involved the buying-in of nine
freeholds and 15 leasehold in¬
terests. These have been s ur r en -
dered to British Kail, which, in
return, has granted the developers
a 250-year lease on the entire site.

The o ffices, designed by the
architects Renton Howard Wood
Levin, will be contained in a 15-
storey tower, and will take their
place in an area being steadily
revitalized as it becomes estab¬
lished as an office location.

The scheme has been welcomed
by Michael Cassidy, chair man of
the Corporation of London’s plan¬

briefing

■ A £67 million plan to
redevelop Uster s Manntngham
MrfJs in Bradford, West
Yorkshire, one of trio city s most
striking landmarks, has own
unveiled after a faajwb&ty study
funded by List and Co. Bradford
Council and the Department of the
En v ironment

It is estimated that the scheme,
called Lister City, could create at

wing and Wi mmimirfllwiiw com¬
mittee, who described it as one of
tire most ingenious schemes ever
produced, iwfcing fall use of the
awkward site.

“There is a need to provide
modern accommodation in the
City, and this imaginative scheme
over railway tracks caters to that
demand in an admirable and
visually exciting maimer," said
Mr Cassidy.

A Roman boundary wall was
uncovered during an architectural
dig carried out by foe Museum of
London and sponsored by Central
and Gty at a cost of £420,000. Part
of itwill be preserved and visible
wi thin the building.

architects Shephearo. Epstein and.
Hunter says the building, wttn
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legacy

I do not know how many exec¬
utives of asbestos companies hare
contracted Mes ot helioma, the in¬
curable cancer caused by some
asbestos. No doubt, when popping
their noses into their factories
some of them breathed rather less
easily, not to say less frequently,
after reading the scientific reports
commissioned by their companies
in the 1930s and '40s, which
proved the deadly effects of some
of their products.

Their workers and people tiring
near their factories were less
inclined to lurid their breath, for
the findings were cynically sup¬
pressed by the companies. The
scientists could not publish with¬
out their perntismoo.

In some ways the most chafing
shot in Too Close to Home (ITV),
first Tuesday’* controlled, if
deeply disturbing, documentary on
asbestos cancer, was not one of a
victim in. suffocating agony but a
simple dose-up of a scientific
report, with the word “Cnf* penned
by an anonymous executive Hand
across the cancer-fink section.

This was no vulgar act of
te r rori s m which ^ 14 ^ an
instant bloody retain on its labour.
The innocent victims of this type of
time-bomb are not hit until de¬
cades later — by which time its
makers are probably dead. Most
of the victims seen In the film were
being killed by a factory in Leeds
where they never worked and
which has been closed for 30 years.

; The hand, however, did seem to
have been obscenely steady as it
Stroked away a little dangerous
knowledge which might have
Killed the fun of kids playing in die
street with all that white dost. One
dying man remembered it as a bit
like snow. Yon could not but help
wondering what hands are now
tinting “cut" on inconvenient
scientific reports.

Andrew Hislop

The

S ir Peter HaO is not an easy
man to ignore. Scourge of
the Arts Council for its
parsimony in fixing the
National Theatre’s sub¬
sidy, he is the bitter enemy of The
Sunday Times after its suggestion
that NT commercial transfers
were making him a personal
fortune. Outspoken critic of the
Government and subject of pruri¬
ent gossip about his private life
(his third marriage, to opera singer
Maria Ewing, was publicly de¬
clared to be over in the summer),
he is a headline writer’s dream.

Combative, forceful, articulate,
he seems to relish drawing fire.
But, in the context of British
theatre history, none of this
matters very much. What does
matter is that for a quarter of a
century (10 years with the Royal
Shakespeare Company and 15 at
the National) he presided over
Gist one, then the other, of the two
major theatre companies in tins
country, imprinting each of them
with his style.

From an early age he took risks
in directing new work. Hall's were
the first British productions of
Waiting for Godot, of many of
Pinter's plays and, in 1937 and
1958 r e sp ec ti vely, of Tennessee
Williams’s Camino Retd and Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof.. And it is with a
play by Wiliams that Hall is
inaugurating a new era in his
professional life.

Orpheus Descending is the first
production by the Peter HaO
Company, a commercial enter¬
prise under the protective wing of
Triumph Theatre' Productions,
which is owned by an English
producer (Duncan C Weldon)
and an American (Jerome Mins-
coff). The new company will have
a three-year tenancy of the
Haymarket Theatre in London
and will also mount productions
in the United States.

Over a drink near a Chelsea
church hall where the company
had been rehearsing just before
their first week's booking, in Bath,
Hall was predictably enthusiastic
about Orpheus Descending. “It is a
terribly under-valued play, with

showman

Heather Neill
interviews theatre
director Sir Peter
Hall on the eve of
his debut as an
independent in
the West End

passions and sufferings on a Greek
level. It is not a naturalistic piece
— played natatatistically it is
embarrassing."

Failure to understand this on
the pan of previous directors may
account for the play’s lack of
success in Boston and London in
the Fifties. It has. however, the
qualities Hail most admires in any
work he presents: ‘'highly wrought
language highly formed writing’'.

Williams described the play,
which he shaped and reshaped
over 17 years, as “the story of a
wild-spirited boy who wandas
into a conventional community of
the South and creates the commo¬
tion of a fox in a chicken coop”.
Jean Marc Barr plays the boy, Val,
and Vanessa Redgrave Lady Tor¬
rance, the woman most affected by
his intervention.

A stickler for casting exactly the
right actors in any play. Hall
believes he has found the right
pair here. Barr, 28, half-French,
half-American, has “the right
style, accent, rhythm” for VaL the
wild outsider who bears more than
a passing resemblance to Wil¬
liams; while “Lady is a God-given
part for Vanessa. She has some¬
thing of a Madonna about her, but
she is a frustrated Italian too, with
spirit”

For “sheer dangerous creativ¬
ity’ he thinks Redgrave un¬
equalled. He admires her unex¬
pectedness. her combination
(shared with Edith Evans and
Ralph Richardson) of a kind of

recklessness and “ amazing truth”.

It is a pleasure in the rehearsal
process which motivates Hall; not,
he said sternly, money, success or
feme (“What is there to enjoy
about ft?”). “There is sometimes a
point, just two or three days, when
you are all, actors and director,
better than you thought you
were.” The hope of achieving that
moment keeps him going.

“It’s a journey to find the way to
a play with the actors collaborat¬
ing. You have to be open, to say T
don’t know’, and unless you have
an obsession to do it, you won’t
endure the difficulties and fatigues
of the journey.” Hie most dread¬
ful day for a director is not, he
says, the first night, but the first
day of rehearsals when “you have
a gut instinct as to whether you’ve
got it right”.

An acknowledgement that he
had not. during rehearsals of
Cymbeline at the National led to
his parting of the ways, amid
much publicity, with Sarah Miles.
“But r ve only fired three people in
33 years.”

There are five Americans in the
cast of Orpheus Descending and, if
all goes to plan, Dustin Hoffman
will play Shylock in The Merchant
of Venice in May. There will be
productions in New York too, in¬
cluding a musical version of
Ionesco’s Rhinoceros , set in a
California shopping mall “It’s a
timely .play: there are a lot of
rhinos about”

He thought it would do . both
cultures “a great deal of good” to
capitalize on their shared language
and institute regular theatrical
exchanges. He would particularly
like to produce Shakespeare in the
US in well-spoken American
which is. be pointed out closer
than modern British English to
Elizabethan speech.

There are plans for working
a gain with masks, in the manner
of The Oresteia and Animal Farm
at the NationaL “Masks are, like
ballet Shakespeare’s blank verse,
the music of opera—or the height¬
ened language of Orpheus Des¬
cending r— a means of enabling the
expression of emotion by con-

STEPHEN MARKESON

Headline writer’s dream: Sir Peter Hall is relishing the challenge of life outside the subsidized theatre

taining and forming it... AD
very arty stuff” he added
deprecatingly.

The conversation ranged wide¬
ly.- There was Inner criticism of
Government policy: “In 10 years
well wake up and wonder how we
lost our education and health ser¬
vices, our theatre and broad¬
casting system ... Their behav¬
iour over sponsorship has been
wicked: they said private money

wouldn't jeopardize subsidy and it
has.” Of Broadway theatre he said:
“plastic musicals for tourists”; of
English culture: “philistine”; and
of American television: “62 un-
watchable channels”.

He spoke of his plans for
directing opera all over the world
and malting an original film for
the BBC next year, and of avoid¬
ing the tabloid press by dodging
behind bushes with Alan Ayck¬

bourn. And throughout he main¬
tained a genial air. Geariy he rel¬
ishes the challenge of his new life,
even if he finds himself “in an ex¬
tremely turbulent and noisy mar¬
ketplace, where you have to shout
about what you are doing, or no
one will notice you're there”.

• Orpheus Descending begins pre¬
views at the Theatre Royal
Haymarket tomorrow and opens
next Tuesday.

Winning studies

DONALD COOPER

CONCERT

Catalogue d’oiseaux

(^leenHizabethHall

T .. ..— 1 . .

The choice on Sunday at the South
Bank was between symphonic
Beethoven . and ornithological
Messiaen, with the latter being
perhaps the more humane mara¬
thon: the 13 pieces of the Cata¬
logue d'oiseaux seemed positively
modest in requiring only three
hours and the efforts of five
pianists, all of whom were ex¬
pupils of Yvonne Loriod.

Hwei-Cheh Liu, the most like
her teacher, dosed the evening
ctangorously and generously in the
three pieces of the seventh book.
However, there was some lade of
care in her playing: magnilo¬
quence turned sometimes into
splashiness, and repetitions were
dangerously automatic.

The pianist who stayed most

dosdy and intensely in command
was Roger Muraro, who had
charge of the big centre p iece . La
RousseroUe effarvatte. This was
Again powerful playing, but
achieved with pungency and bate:
the chains oTcofour-haintoina
depicting the water-lilies, irises
and reflected sides were fresh »nd
clean.

It was good to have a contrast
between these two weighty pi¬
anists in the gentle Ftedfric
Lagarde, whose playing had a
welcome suppleness and elegance
Mule ceding nothing in luminous
colour, especially the kingfisher
blues and greens of La Bouscarle.

Both the other pianists also had
good points to make: Vdrooique
Pelissero in her coaxing of phrases
into roundedness in the first book,
and Suzanne Gieetham in her
looser, lither approach, going
against the others’ tendency to
look in Messiaen’s piano writing
for bells, gongs and xylophones.

Paul Griffiths

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Healing spirit

A Christmas Carol

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For some children this Christmas
the name Scrooge will mean the
new Bill Murray film, which puts
Dickens through the mincer and
serves it up as the story of a
skinflin t producer of American
television.

Luckier will be those who are
taken to David Holman’s dram¬
atization of the original, which
adds just a little contemporary
language but rightly sees no reason
to update farthings and
sovereigns.

But, more important than ver¬
bal accuracy, Holman’s version is
faithful to the healing spirit of the
original, its message that past
errors can be repaired and the
good life lived again. I shall not
deny I wiped away a tear.

At the rear of the open stage
rises a lofty four-poster, a triples
decker affair with an eyrie reached
by dizzying flights of steps. From
this high point Jon Strickland’s
Scrooge is transported around the
worid by the Ghost of Christmas
Present, a journey im agi n atively
suggested in Martin Jameson's
production by the simplest tech¬
nical means: a wind m ac hin e
visible to the audience, a travel¬
ling beam for a lighthouse, carols
inforeign languages.

A band of caroHers strolls on to
cover the scene-shifting, varying
wassailing with a pleasant peal of
handbells and a musical grand exit
led by Scrooge himself on
trombone.

Strickland’s bony physique
gives the early scenes a bleak
rightness, and he has a voice that
can chill an audience with sudden
cries of dismay at a vision only he
can see. The desolate phantoms in
the street are conjured up for us by
his tone of voice and stricken gaze
alone:

The three Ghosts are plainly
visible, the last of them a figure
10ft tall that unfolds itself from
the four-poster like a genie out of a
lamp. The poignancy of Scrooge
attempting to alter Ins past by ad¬
dressing shapes from his child¬
hood is keenly fell, and il is

precisely by keeping bold of the
story’s emotional urgency, though
there is humour and jollity along
the way, that the play keeps its
audience enthralled.

Pinned up in the bar are letters
from children who saw previews.
“I have no Bad Thoughts about
this play,” writes a boy from
Edgware. I could not have put it
better myself

Jeremy Kingston

Making History

Cottesloe _

Eight years ago, in Translations,
Brian Friel achieved the greatest
landmark since O'Casey in Irish
political theatre by looking at the
colonial past from the perspective
of language. In this sequel
(another Field Day production),
Friel again illuminates the most
uigent national issues by means of
another academic discipline.

In this case, he raises one of his-
country’s unappeased ghosts, so as
to ask whether history is made by
men of action or by historians. His
hero is Hugh O'Neill, leader of the
Gaelic uprising that was smashed
at the battle of Kinsale. Seamus
Heaney gave English readers a
much-needed introduction to this
Irish chieftain and Elizabethan
courtier in The Times on Monday.
Irish readers need no newspapers
to tdl them about the Flight of the
Earls.

What is equally useful to both is
Friers revision of the myth: as
where he undercuts the heroic
image of the Flight with the sight
of the defeated O’Neill hiding out
in the Sperrin mountains before
shrivelling into embittered,
drunken exile in Rome.

Making History is emphatically
not a debunking exercise; rather, it
embodies Friel's point that the life
of a national hero can be told in
many different ways determined

by the expectations of subsequent
eras.

The central device of the play is
to show O’Neill conducting an
elaborate balancing act between
bis tribal and continental alle¬
giances, while his first biographer.
Archbishop Lombard, is piously
at work simplifying him into an
uncomplicated nationalist.

The further irony is that Friel
no less than Lombard, is chiefly
telling a good story. What he offers
is not the ‘’truth” about O'NeilL
but a 17th-century figure who
reflects our own need for Anglo-
Irish understanding: a man who
combined his Gaelic leadership
with a New English Protestant
marriage, and who managed to
hold two self-cancelling loyalties
until the arrival of the Spanish
drove him into the tragic adven¬
ture of Kinsale.

The piece is not in the same
class as Translations. In Stephen
Curtis's production, it has not
solved the problem of combining
action and debate, and there are
too many passages that subside
into the wooden attitudes of
historical drama.

Stephen Rea’s O’Neill does not
emerge as a charismatic leaden
what he does project with great
intensity is the sense of cultural
schizophrenia, seen at its most
agonized when in collision with
Niall Toibin’s smooth, ever-re-
assuring Archbishop, who knows
that, as the writer, he is the
stronger of the two: a wonderful
performance.

Irving Wardle

In this award-winning adaptation
(Edinburgh 1986) the stage is the
grubby San Francisco apartment
ofC. Card, a dead beat private eye,
and Kerry Shale, who has turned
Richard Bra origan's novel into a
dazzling one-man show, slouches
in wearing a greasy brown suit as
dead beat as the room. From
painful reality Card retreats into
colourful daydreams based on the
serial films of his childhood: aided
by a sultry Euphrates beauty, who
not only votes Democrat but has
large breasts, he defeats Evil
Doctors and all their fawning
servitors.

Commissioned by a suave
beauty in a chauffeur-driven limo
to steal a stiff from the morgue,
and successively threatened by
virions Mexicans, smiling black
hoods, flashing razors and his own
vengeful mother, he soon finds
menace rushing towards him, arm-
in-arm with farce.

Shale bops into and out of these
nightmare characters with rapid
changes of voice and gesture,
shrewd in the selection of detail
and explosively fanny at times,
.though using skills beyond the
capacity of the actual C. Card, a
goof barely able to pot one and one
together.

Discounting this structural flaw,

we have the riveting sight of a man
using wisecracks to ward off
existential panic while steeling
himself to tell ns what is Inside his
fridge. There are powerful horrors
beneath the laughter.

Jeremy Kingston

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Sarah Miles is one of the inmates
confronting bulldozers, a video
documentary crew and the bewildering
world outside.

Lyric Theatre, King St, W6 (01-741
2311). Tube: Hammersmith. Mon to Sat
7.45-10.15pm; Mats Wed 2.30-5 pm and
Sat 4-6.30pm. Eves ES-E10.

☆ BLOOD BROTHERS: Willy RusseTs
sentimental musical: separated twins
destroyed by the English class system;
Kikl Dee as their mother.

* LETTTCE AND LOVAGE: Geraldine
McEwan and Sara Kasteiman takeover
the leads in Peter Schaffer's smash
comedy where two unlikely partners

wage eccentric war against the modem

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Mon-Sat 7.45-10.45pm, mats TTmrs 3-
6pm, and Sat4-7pm. E6.90-£1850.(D)

☆ BRIGADOON: OK revival of Lamer
and Loewe's misty Scottish musical.
Victoria Palace, Victoria St SW1 (01-834
1317}. Tube: Victoria. Mon-Sat 7.30-

10pm. Mats Thurs, Sat 230-Spm, £8-
£20. Thurs mat. all seats half-price.

☆ BUDGIE: Adam Faith with Anita
Dobson in thirmish Soho musical.
Cam br i d ge Theatre, Earfham St, WC2
(01-379 5299). Tube; Covent Garden.
Mon-Sat 7.45pm. mats Wed and Sat
3pm. £8-£20 except Wed mats, £4-£10.
(D)

☆ CANDIDE: Christmas treat: Leonard
Bernstein's tune-packed musical, part
opera, part Broadway; with Mark
Beudert, Marilyn HM Smith, Nlckolas
Grace.

Old vie Theatre, Waterloo Road, SEi
(01 -928 7616). Tube: Waterloo. Mon-Fri
7.30-IOpm, Sat 7.45-10.15pm; mats
Wed 2-30-5pm, ES-E16, and Sat 4-
6.30pm, £6-£19.

☆ HEART-THROB: Witty, poignant play
co-authored by Jeremy Seabrook: two
women writing letters to a prisoner in a
top security jail.

Bush Theatre, Shepherd's Bush Green,
W12 (01-743 3388}. Tube: Shepherd's
Bush. Previews Nov9ans 10,8pm.
p res s^ght Nov 11,7pm, then Tues-Sun

* THE ILLUSION: ATCs dazzling
production of Corneille's enchanted
comedy.

Lyric Studio Theatre, King St, W6 (01-
741 2311). Tube: Hammersmith. Mon-
Sat B-9.45pm; mats Wed 3-4.45pm and
Sat 4.30-6.15pm, £8. Until Dec 17.

Glebe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue,

W1 (01-4373667). Tube: Piccadilly
Circus. Moo-Sat. 7.45-10.15pm. mat Sat
3-5-30pm, £7.50-£15. (D)

☆ THE RELAPSE: See caption.

Mermaid Theatre: Mermaid Theatre,
Puddle Dock. EC4 (01 -236 5568). Tube:
Blackfriars. 730-10-30pm. mat sat 2-
5pm, £4.50-£1Z30-

* THE WOMAN IN WHITE: Sue
Dunderdate's production of the classic
Victorian thriller; Michael Byrne as
sinister Count Fosco and Helena
Bonham-Carter in her stage debut
Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill. SE10
(01-8587755). Train: Greenwich BR (15
mins from Charing Cross). Mon-Sat
7.45-10pm, mats Sat2.30-4.45pm. Mon-
Fri E3.50-E7.50; Sat eves E3-50-E10; Sat
mats £35045.

LONG RUNNERS^ Beyond
Reasonable Doubt Queen's Theatre
(01-7341166)... Yr Ceta: New London
Theatre (01-405 0072)... * FoBes:
Shaftesbury Theatre (01-379
5399)... « 42nd Street Drury Lane
Theatre(01-8368108)... ☆ Las
Uaiaawa Dangereueeee Ambassador
Theatre (01-6366111)... Me and

S r Girt Adelphl Theatre (01-240
13)... ☆ LesMtaeraWes:Palace
Theatre (01-434 0909)... 4 The
Mousetrap: St Martin's Theatre (01-836
1443)... 4 The Phantom of the

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1117)... 4 Starlight Express: Apoflo
Victoria (01-828 8665)

OUT OF TOWN

BRIGHTON: 4 Time and the Conways:
Carmen Silvers, Richard Warwick, Polly
James in touring production of
Priestley's time classic.

Theatre RmaL New Road (0273 28488),
Mon-Thur 7.45pm, Frl and Sat 8.15pm,
mats Thur23Cpin and Sat 5pm, £4-£9.

MANCHESTER: 4 Macbeth: David
Threlfati and Frances Barber In powerful
death-camp production by Braham

Royal Ex
(061833
and Safi
4pm. £2.

Uange Theatre, Cross Street
333), Mon-Thurs 730pm, Fri
m, mats Wed 2.30pm^nd Sat
>-£10.

■ Also on national release
a Advance booking possible

■ BAGDAD CAFE (PG): German
director Percy Adkxi presents the warm,
comic tale of a large midde-dass tourist
from Bavaria stranded in the American
West With Marianne Sagebrecht, Jack
Palance.C. C. H. Pounder (91 min).
Screen on Bakar St (01-935 2772).
Progs 3.15.5.05,7.10,9.05.

Metro (01-437 0757).

Progs 2.00 (notSat-Tues), 4.15,630.

Roy Marsden (above), who has
recently been seen on television as
P.D. James's laconic detective,
Adam Dalgliesh. takes on an
entirely different role at the Mer¬
maid Theatre (see listing). In The
Relapse, Sir John Vanbrugh’s
biting Restoration comedy, he
plays the vain and flamboyant
Lord Foppingfon, with Kate
O'Mara as Berinthia. This is the
latest production of the British
Actors Theatre Company, which
was formed last year by Kate
O'Mara and Peter Woodward.

BIRD (15): Clint Eastwood's
impressively mounted biography of

Charlie Parker with Forest Whitaker as

the legendary jazz saxophonist- (161
nun).

Lunriere (01-836 0691). Progs 1.25,
4.35,755. Late Fri, Sat 11.15.

Cannon Fulham Rd (01-370 2636).
Progs 1.40,5.15.8.45.

Screen on the HDI (01-435 3366). Progs
3 JO, 7.45. Late Fri, Sat 11.15.

COLORS OBk VMd crime drama from
director Dennis Hopper; with Sean Perm
and Robert Duval as Los Angeies cops
of clashing temperaments, assigned to
the CRASH unit (121 min).

Cannon Chelsea (01-352 5096). Progs
2.30,6.40,9.25.

Netting tm Coronet (01-727 6705).

Odeon West End (01-330 6111). Progs
1220,3.00,6.00,630. Lata Fri. Sat

■ COMING TO AMERICA (15k Eddie

Murphy as a pampered foreign prince

who comes to America to select his own
bride. A botched comic vehicle with a
touch of sweetness; drected by John
Lands. (116 min).

Plaza 2(01-200 0200). Progs 2.00.430.
7.00,9.30. Late Fri. Sat midnight.

DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (15k
Terence Davies's remarkable new film
set in Liverpool fn the 1940s and '50s—
a moving exorcism of family ghosts,
ingeniously set to popular music. With
Freda Dome and Peter Po s Bethwatte
(85 mm).

Renoir (01-837 8402). Progs 1-20,3.15,
5.10,7.10.9.10.

DREAM DEMON (18k An American giri
searching for her roots comes to the aid
of a sociaite bride vriio experiences
hideous nightmares. Fanciful British
horror film; directed by Harley Cokiiss,
with Kathleen WHhoite and Jemma
Redgrave (93 min).

Cannon Panton St (01-930 0631). Progs
240,5.05.735,10.05.

THE FRUIT MACHINE (15k Latter to
Brezhnev writer Frank Clarke Is behind
this seaside extra

Coitrene.(1Q2min).

Cannon Hay market (01-8391527V
Progs 130 (not Sun), 330.630,8.40.
Late Fri, Sat 1135.

LAW OF DESBtE {18k Outrageous
Spanish fBm celebrating the absurdities
of human desire throu^i the adventures
of a gay flhn director and his transsexual
sister. Written and directed by Pedro
Atinodd

Metro (01-437 0757). Progs 3.00 (not
Sun), 5.00.7.00,9.d0.

Late Sat 11.15. Odeon Swiss Cottage
(01-722 5905/586 3057). Progs 2.00.
5.30,8.10.

Although be s sabject to the same
routine sneers in the media, Rick
Astley differs in a number of
respects from most of his British
teenypop peers. As weQ as being
blessed with a resonant, black-
sonnding voice of some character,
he has also eqjoyed phenomenal
success intematioaally. Indeed,
last year he notched up No 1 hits
in America with his first two
singles, “Never Gonna Give Yon
Up” and “Whenever Yon Need
Somebody". He started singing in
the choir at his church in Newton- ;
le-WOlows, North Yorkshire, be¬
fore taking up as first the drummer
and then the vocalist in the local
bands Give Way and FBL In 1985
be was spotted singing with FBI in
a northern dob by Fete Water¬
man. Eighteen months later he
emerged fully groomed for star¬
dom as the jewel in the celebrated
Stock Aitken Waterman prod ac¬
tion team's crown. His last hit,
“She Wants To Dance With Me",
was written and produced by
Astley himself^ while his latest
single, "Take Me To Yoar Heart"
this week cruises safely np to No 8
amid the intense competition of Iht
pre-Christmas chart. Rick
Astley's debut UK tour begins
tomorrow (Dec 8), Edinburgh
Playhouse, 18-21 Greenside Place
(031 557 2590) 7.30pm, £10; Sat
Dec 10. Newcastle City Hall (091
261 2606); Mon 12 and Thurs 22,
Manchester Apollo (061 273
6921); Wed 14 and Thurs 15,
Wembley Arena, Middlesex (01-
902 1234); Sat 17 and Sim 18,
NEC Birmingham (021 780
4133k Toes 20, Bournemouth
International Centre (0202
22122). Dawid Sinclair

WJgmcre HalL 36 Wwmore St London
W1 (01-9352141), 730pm. returns only.

4 BUUR/BETTS! The Young
Musicians' Symphony Orchestra is
conducted by James Blair in Brecknefs
lengthy Symphony No 8 and, with
Mams Betts as soloist, Patterson's
Trumpet Concerto.

St John's, Smith Sq. London SW1 (01-
2221061), 730pm. £3-630.

4 NETWORK NOTES: Under the
auspices of the Arts Council
Contemporary Music Network, Rofd
Hind conducts London Brass hi
Xenakis's Earns, Ruders's Break
Dance, Messiaen's Regard de rEsprit
da Jo/e, Taverner's Trfsag/on and
Janacek's Capriccto.

Queen Elizabeth HaH, South Bank,
London SEI (01 928 6800), 7.45pm
£530.

4 PANUFNDCS MESSAGES: The
Vanbrugh Quartet undertake Panufnflc’s
Quartet No 2 "Messages,” Smetana's
Quartet No 1 "From My Life,”
Patter so n's Quartet Op 58 and
Beethoven's Quartet Op 18 No 3.
PurceB Room, South Bank, London SEI
(01-928 8800), 8pm, £3-6.

CLASSICAL TOP 20

1 (1) Elgar: Cello Concerto_Barbroffi/LSO/Du Pre. HMV

2 (2) Elgar Cello Concerto-Barenboim/Poo/Du Pro. CBS

3 (3) Lloyd Webber Requiem _—„ Domingo/Brigtrtman/Maazel/Eco, HMV

A (6) Vhrekfi: Four Seasons-Hogwood/Academy, L'Osseau Lyre

5 (4) Holst The Planets--KaraJan/BPO, DG

6 (5) Elgar Celo Concerto-Menuhln/RPO/Webber, PhBps

7(7) AMnonfc Adagio-Karzfcm/BPO, DG

8 (-) MaMer Resurrection--Gilbert Caplan, IMP

9 (15) MaMer Symphony 2_Rattle/CBSO, HMV

10 (16) Chopin: Favourites----Katehen/Katm, Dacca

11 (9) Elgar/Haydn/Beethoven CeSo Concertos-Bare nbotin/ECO. EMI

12 (12) Tchakovaky: 1812 Overture-Dutort/MSO, Dacca

13 (14) Handel: Messiah Excerpts_Marriner/ASMF, Dacca

14 (7) Holst Planets_Previn/RPO. Tetarc

15 (-) Mozart Horn Concerto - Tuckweti/ECO, Dacca

18 (18) Grieg: Peer Gynt-Von Karajan/BPO. DG

17 (-) Holst The Planets-Dutoit/MSO. Dacca

18 (11) SBmHus: Symphony 5-Rattle/CBSO. HMV

19 (19) Mendelssohn: Violin Conerto-Mutter/KaraJan/BPO. DG

20 (13) Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto 2-Softi/LSO/Katchen Dacca

4 MARTIN SPEAKE: No longer with
Itchy Fingers, the alto*! toads a quartet
whose repertoire draws on the work of

Ornette Coleman. _

Sun Sessions. The Bedford. 77 Bealord
Hill. London SW12 (01-673 1756).
830pm. £3.

4 BOBBY WATSON: In residence until
tomorrow, the ex-BJakey alto player
appears with a a rhythm section
indudng pianist Nick Weldon.

Raw Clef. 35 Coronet Street. London
Nt (01-729 2476)8.45pm. £4.50.

<■ ADELAIDE HALL: Stitt m fine voice 60
years after "Creole Love Call ".

King's Head Theatre Club, 115 Upper
Street. London N1 (01-2261916)

8pm. £7.90.

4 STEVE BERRY/MARK LOCKHART: A
bass-and-sax duet from two-thirds of
the Steve Berry Tm.

Vortex Jazz Bar, 139 Stoke Newington
Churen Street. London Ni6(0i-254
6516) 8.30pm. £2.

ROCK

4 THE POGUES: Launch Of UK tour
with a benefit concsrt m memory of
victims of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster.
Proceeds to Save The Children. Support
is Andy White.

Baths Had, DoncasterRoad
Scunthorpe (0724 842332) 7.30pm. £10.

★ UTILE FEAT: Seventies Southern
funk legend, reconstituted minus the
deceased and sorely missed Lowell
George.

Town A Country, 8-17 HighgataRoad.
London NW5 (01-284 0303)7.30pm,
£8.50, for two nights.

4 SUICIDE: New York synth duo whose
early work was shamelessly ransacked
by Stgue Sigue Sputnik.

International. 47 Anson Road.
Manchester (061 224 5050) 8pm. £4.

4 SARAH JANE MORRIS: Best known
for her stints with the Communards and
trie Happy End.

Mean FtokSer, 24-28a Hartesden High
Street. London NW10 (01-961 5490)
8pm, £5.

GALLERIES

HANNAH COLUNS: Enormous
monochrome pnoto- works depicting
desoljio intenor spaces
Institute ol Contemporary Arte/The
MaH. London SW1 (01-930 3647). Daily
noon-Spm. 75p. urnti Fob 5-

WHJJAM HEATH ROBINSON (1872-
I944y Sixty pictures ongmftSy devtsed
to advertise a leather tanning company.
Chris Beetles, 10 Ryder Street London
Swi (01-839 7551) Daily 10am-S.30pm
free, unw Dec 23.

Page, with Burt Reynolds as the TV
news editor determined to hold onto Ms
star reporter and ex-wife (Kathleen
Turner). Directed by Ted Kotcheff; with
Christopher Reeve. (105 min)

Odeon Leicester Sq (01-930 6111).
Progs 1IL45,3.15,6.00,8.45. Late Fri,
Sat 11.45.

CONCERTS

LUNCHTIME

4 VICTORIAN MUSIC: Julian Ctericson
conducts the City Chamber Chor in
Victoria's motet and mass O Magnum

OPERA

4 THE MAKING OF THE
REPRESENTATIVE FOR PLANET 8:
Sluggish production snd platitudmlring

Glass's nabdy attempt at a

f iii 1 i 1 Vi t wM

VENETIAN SELF-PORTRAIT: Oils by
David Den by

The Mail Gaiteries. 17 Carrion House
Terrace. London SWI (01-93068441.

Darfy i0-5pm. free, until Mon.

TONY CRAGGS New works by trie recant
Turner Pnza winner
Lisson Gallery, 67 Lisson Street.
London NW1 (01-7242739), Tuss-Fn
10 am- 6 pm. Sat 10 am- 1 pm. free until
Dec 24.

OTHER EVENTS

SALE OF FINE AND RARE WINES,
CIGARS AND COLLECTORS ITEMS:

rrTirr*iiircTii JTO1Y,i;: r .7-^T»Tiir>-i

wmes from Bodegas. Maroues de
Mumeta 1922 - tnree botties wtil set
you back between £900 and £1300 - a
ol Chateau Mouton Rothschild

£3.600. Many other Ime wmes and ports
and a selection of unusual corkscrews.
Sothebyto, 35 and 35 New Bond Street,
London Wl (01-493 8080). 10.30am and
230pm.

NATIONAL TRUST MUSICAL EVENING:
On a Christmas theme with a cheese
and punch buffet
Artfngton Court, near Barnstable.

Devon, 7.15pm. Tickets £4.75. (Further
details and booking 027 182 296).

ANNUAL SALE OF SPORTING AND
LIVESTOCK PICTURES: Pictures
include a''primitive" pig, a Devon butt
and prize cow. Also a fine John
Frederick Herring portrait of the 1852.
Derby winner Darnel O'Rourke inscribed
and dated and, for shooting enthusiasts,
a Heywood Hardy depicting an elegant
lady out shooting with a gamekeeper.
Bonhams, Montpelier SL Knigtitebridhe.
London. SW7 (01*584 9161). 6pm. .

SfM ar tin-wHhM-Ludgata, Ludgate Wfl.
London EC4 (01-248 6054), 1.15-
1.45pm, tree.

EVENING

4 WINTER JOURNEY: Robert Holt,
bass, sings Schubert's Writer-rasa
cycle D 911 with Andres Schiff at trie

4 DIE FLEOERMAUS: Simon CaBoWs
new punk-style production for Scottish
Opera returns » Glasgow.

Theatre Royal, GJa^cw (041 3311234
7.15-1030pm, £3-£23.

DANCE

4 SWANSONG: Soloists from London
Festival Ballet give Christopher Bruce's
dance drama with the classic ApoHo and
showpieces by Petipa and BoumonviBe.
Octagon Theatre, Hendford, Yeovil
(0935 22884). matinee 2-4.30pm. £3;
730-10pm, &30-E830.

4 APOLLO: SBvfe Guttiem, guest star

from Paris, dances with the Royal Ballet
in this and Grandpas Oasskjue. A
Month In The Country and Btntiey's new
Sptnt of Fugue complete the txIL
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
London WC2 (01-2401066), 7.30-
1030pm. £11-£29.

DON QUIXOTE: Christopher Gable's
production for Northern Batter Theatre
reaches Its home town.

Palace, Manchester (0612369922),
730-10 pm. £4-£1030

WALKS

Edgbaston, Birmingham, 7-10pm.

BOOKINGS

FIRST CHANCE

ESTERHAZY SINGERS: 1988/9 season
includes Graham Wifliams A Psalm ol
David, Stanford's Songs of Farewell,
and works by Haydn and Vaughan
Williams.

St PauTa Church. Covent Garden, and
St John's, Smith Square. Programmes
and tickets: Esterriazy Singers. 2
Anchor Mews. London SW12 9PO (Of-
6750232).

THE VORTEX: Booking for Noel Coward
play, starmg Maria Aitken and Rupert-
Everen, directed by Philip Prowse. From
Jan 26.

Garrick Theatre, Charing Cross Road.

»!i:..«:iiVi*r , JHiB<r*:i.'inr

LAST CHANCE

SCHUBERT: MENDELSSOHN: THE
CLASSICAL ROMANTICS: Final week
of senes includes Schubert's Winter-
reise. Haydn Trio of Vienna, and
Songmakers* Almanac in programme of
Swan Songs by the two composers Who
both died tragically young. '

Wigmore Hub, 36 Wigmore Street, .
London Wl (01-935 2141).

HENRY MOORE: Major ratrospectivoof

Source: Music Week Research

A JOURNEY THROUGH DICKENS'S
LONDON; meet Baker Street tube.

11 am, £3(01-937 4281).

IN AND O UT THE ALLEYS OF FLEET
STREET: meet Blackfriars tube. 11 am,
£2.50 (0277 213704).

ON THE TRAIL OF JACK THE RIPPER:
meet Tower HMI tube. 7pm, £3 (01-937
4281).

PIRATES, SMUGGLERS AND
PRESSGANGS: meet Tower Hitt tube,
735pm. £3 (01-668 4019).

LEGAL LONDON: Holbom Tube, 2pm,
£2.50(01-4418906)

examples from all

from earnest

Theatre: Jeremy Kingston; Fflms--
GeofTBrown; Concerts: Max Ham-'
son: Opera: Hilary Finch: flock;
David Sinclair. Jazz: Give Davis;
Dance: John Percival; Galleries:
David Lee; Other Events: Judy
Froshaug; Bookings: Anne
Whitehouse.

CONCISE CROSSWORD NO 1739

ACROSS

3 Bosun's instrument (4)

5 Shine (4)

8 Love affair! 5)

10 Treasury (1>

11 DividviMS)

12 Uncunscious(J)

13 Aiuaaivcncss(5l

14 Likci7)

16 Skills<7)

18 Ransack ($)

20 Twil«* 131

22 Riding dress (5)

23 Face hood (9)

24 Likeness (5)

25 City (4)

26 Muddle (4)

DOWN

1 doth (6)

2 Attendance list (4,4)

3 Prevalence (12)

4 Lace hoop patterns (6)

6 Noisy (4) dramatist (12) 17 Bombard from air (6)

7 Prison guard (6) 15 Ship emergency craft (8) 19 One or other (6>

9 Barber of Seville 16 Dainty soap (6) 21 Move freely (4)

SOLUTION TO NO 1738

ACROSS: 1 Cancellation 9 Traffic 10 Chafe 11 Trap 12 Baritone
!4 Set 15 Clare 16 Gas 18 Reinvest 20 Slur 22 Let in 23 Catwalk
24 Carte blanche

DOWN: 2 Adamant 3 Cuff 4 Lackadaisical 5 Andiises $ Imago
7Niece 8Status 13Scavenge 16 Goliath 17Shrike lSRelic 19Inter

21 Stun

WINNING MOVE

By Raymond Keene,

Chess Correspondent

WORD-WATCHING

Answers firm page 22
TAAL

(b) Cape Dutch, or Afrikaans,
the teal, front the Dutch word
for (angcage: “He speaks the
teal better than a HoQander
can. and can understand the
Boers bettn."

MISPICKEL

(a) Arsenical pyrites, a nmeral
co mp o se d erf iron, arsenic, and
stdphnr, from the same Ger¬
man word, fonnerty mispmL of
obscure origin: “Mispickel is a
tin-whit* huiwpsI, winch
a garlic smeO at the blowpipe.’’

BILBO

(a) Floral bilboes, a rapier or
sword, noted fix- the tempm

and elasticity of its Ma de, from The above position is

taken from ths game

Europe were forged and between JanOWSky

tampered. (White) and Teichman

PTOSIS (Black), Leip2dg 1894.

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three documentaries Desmond

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’■ W3d World which explores the
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about a Peruvian boy. Abandoned
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people who care for them.

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at 1135.

12.10 Afisorts. 1230A Country
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130 News at One with JuQa
SomerviVe.

130 Thames News and weather,
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130 Farmhouse Kitchen. Fish

recipes indudng Fisherman's
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230 Richmond HU. Australian

drama series about two families.

235 Gardening Thn*. Green¬
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335 Thames News and weather.

330 Sons and Daughters.

Australian family drama series.

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- Dogtantan and the Three .
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430 Palace Hffi. Comedy about a
school and its pupils.

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5.13 Blockbusters. Teenage

general knowledge quiz gam&

£45 News with Alastair Stewart
(Oracle).

630Thames News and weather.

535 Hefo offers advice on careers
in music.

530 Eramertiato Farm.

730TMs Is Your Ufe. Michael
Aspei springs a surprise on
another unsuspecting person.
730Coronation Street (Oracle).

830Des O’Connor Tonight The
entertainer's guests are Jim
Davidson, Alan King and
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Chambers, Ballard is to stt In
judgment at an ecclesiastical court

andE raW ne- O rownfato

prosecute; and at home the Canon
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sounds and music gossip with
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• Among the most prominent
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makers of the 1917 Revolu¬
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New Economic Policy.
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successor, he and Bukharin
were for a time dose allies.
Bukharin was devastated by
Stalin's massacre of the peas¬
antry but, loyal to the party,
stayed silent. In 1937 he was
arrested and spent a year in
prison before being put on
trial accused of plotting to
murder Lenin and other
trumped-up crimes. He was
naive enough to think that a
personal approach to Stalin
would save him. He was
executed and his body has

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Executed: Revolutionary Nikolai Bukharin (BBC2,8.10pm)

never been found. In
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Jane Treays reconstructs Buk¬
harin’s story with the help of
British and Soviet academics
and archive footage of the trial
bring shown in the West for
the first time. She also calls on
two first-hand witnesses. As a
young British diplomat in
Moscow, Sir Hizroy Maclean
sat through every day of
Bukharin’s trial. Timewatch
takes him back to the city to

reflect on an era when “fear
and suspicion hung over the
country like a poisonous
mist”. The other direct tes¬
timony comes from Buk¬
harin's widow, Anna Larina.
After the trial she was ban¬
ished to Astrakhan, separated
from their baby son and spent
20 years in prisons and labour
camps. But at least she lived to
tell the tale.

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Rossia Folk Music
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Chorale Prelude on Nun
komm, der Hetden Heiland
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and Ruud Van Der Meer.
bass)

935 Nicanor Zabeieta: The King
of Harpists. C P E Bach
(Sonata in G for harp solo);
Atoenn (Granada.
Zara g oza); Debussy (Danse
Sacree et danse prolane,
for harp and strings: Paul
Kuentz Chamber Orchestra
under Paul Kuantz)

10.10 Russian \Tiofin and Piano
Music Lydia Mordkovitch,
violin and Roger Vtgnoles,
piano, play Prokofiev s Flva
Melodies, Op 35b:
Tchatkovsky's Meditation,
Op 42 and Prokofiev's
Sonata No 2 in D. Op 94a (r)
1130 Midweek Choee: Presented
by Susan Sharpe. J S Bach
(Sterorea - Cantata No 42:

LCO under Anthony
Bernard); Rebecca Clarke
(Viola Sonata: Simcn
Rowland-Jones, viola and
Andrew Ban, piano). Philip
Glass (Knee Play l: Phibp
Glass Ensemble); Sibelius
(Tapioia: BSO under Serge
Koussevitsky); Mozart

(DivertjmentD in E Nat:

London Wind Soloists under
Jack Brymer): Stmpson
(Symphony No S: Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic
under Vernon Handley)

1.00 News

135 Concert Kail: Joanna
MacGregor piano, piavs
Barton s Suite Oo 1*
Debussy s images 8oo*> 2
Messiaen s vmgi Regards
sur l enfant
230 Record Review
3.10 Vintage Years: Recordings
ot the pianist Leopold
Godowsky (1870-1938).
Schubert (Morgengruss -
Die settone MuHenn)-, Grieg
(Ballade in G mm or. Op 24);
Chopm (Sonata No 2. in B
fiat minor. Op 35)

430 Choral Evensong: Live from
Ripon Cathedral

530 Court Ayres: Music from the
pubiicatxxis ot John
Rayford including works by
Locke. Jenkins and Battxar
parley of instruments under
PeierHoUnan)

530 Mainly lor Pleasure:

Presented by Fritz Sptegl
730 News

735 Third Ear: Chaired by
Robert Hswison
730 City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra-
Conducted by Simon Rattle
' and ted by Felix Fox.

Strauss (Four Last Songs);
Stravinsky (Four Studies tor
Orche s tra); John Adams
(Harmonium, for Chorus and!
Orchestra)

840 The Idylls of Theocritus:

Last of four readings from
the work of the Greek poet
otth8 third century BC.
Readers: Russell axon;

John Franktyn-Roooms end
Pearce Quigley
9-10 Music for Two Pianos:

Played by Bruno Canmo
and Antonio Baflista. Mozart
(Sonata in D. K 448b Ravel
(Ma mere i'oye); Gershwin
(An American in Paris);
Copland (Danzon cubano);
Gershwin (Rhapsody in
Blue)

1030 No Dialogue; by John
O’Neifl

1130 Composers of the Week:
Balakirev and Cm: Cui (Four
Poems ot Jean Rictipin, Op
44); Balakirev (Symphonic
Poem - Russe, Sonata in B
flat minor); Cui (La Tom be et
la rose. Op 32 No 3 (i)

12.00-1235 News

Only one

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golden roasted taste.

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Allan Boesak talks about
Karl Barth (R4,11.00am)

• If you believe that you are
even closer to God when you
tisten to Mozart than when
you are in a garden, you will
find a soul mate in Against the
Stream (Radro 4, H.OOam).
Keith Clements’s feature
about Karl Barth, the great
Calvinist theologian. Asked
what he would say to Barth if
he met him in Heaven, the
South African anti-apartheid
campaigner Allan Boesak re¬
plies: “Is it true you enjoyed
listening to Mozart more than
writing your theology? If it is,
I’m not surprised to find you
in Heaven." It is not, how-
ever, Barth's allegiance to
Mozart but his insistence on
man's allegiance to God, first
and last, that Cements exam¬
ines in such fascinating detail.
When men like Barth pro¬
claim that the power of the
grace of God is the source of
true freedom, and that Hea¬
ven has sovereignty over earth
'as much as the soul has
sovereignty over the body and
man has over woman (a sore
point, this, with the Christian
feminist movement), we can
understand why, on the alle¬
giance issue, Barth was a thorn
in Hitler's side. And why he is
so highly regarded by South
African black religious leaders
- though not in the sex war
context — as a theologian of
resistance.

Peter Davalle

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to designate Nestles instant coffees.

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By Staff Reporters

The Prime Minister yesterday
delivered an implied rebuke to
Mrs Edwina Currie, Under¬
secretary of Slate for Health,
over her remarks on egg
contamination and at the
same time gave the public a
lead on what to eat.

Mis Margaret Thatcher said
alter reading two reports from
Sir Donald Acheson, the Gov¬
ernment's Chief Medical Of¬
ficer “1 then decided to have
scrambled egg on toast for
lunch and enjoyed it.”

She rejected demands for
her to act against Mrs Currie
which readied a peak in the
Commons when Mr Robin
Maxwell-Hyslop, a senior
Conservative, said: “Are you

Parliament.

.11

aware of the devastation
caused to the livelihoods of
many people in the poultry
industry by the reckless and
uninformed statement by a
junior minister with an un¬
controllable tongue?”

Mrs Thatcher’s Commons
statement on her lunch
arrangements were welcomed
by egg producers, whose ad¬
vance sales continue to fell by
up to 25 per cent as shops,
schools and hospitals cancel
orders. Mr Peter Dean,
manag in g , director, of Dean's
Farms Eggs in Bedfordshire,
said: “Her remark in distanc¬
ing herself from Mrs Currie is
very helpful and will make our
outlook less bleak.”

Meanwhile, Mrs Currie,
speaking publicly for the first
time since upsetting the in¬
dustry by saying “most egg
production” was infected with
the bacteria, caused more
anger.

She refused to withdraw her
comment, adding that she had
no regrets. “I suspect we have
all underestimated the prob¬
lem, but I think we are all
aware of it now,” she said.

A car to put the thief out of business

The Rover 800 security concept car

Glazing bonded
to body

ff electrical system fails,
access obtained by
enclosed non-pick boot lock
Back up battery activated
by key to unlock car

Anti-siphon
fuel filler
and locking cap

Vehicle identification
number on tamper
proof labels and stored in
engine management
system

No external door locks
Fully enclosed
door latches activated
by infra-red transmitter

Ignition system immobilized
when alarm sounds

Locking wheel nuts

Doors, bonnet and
boot alarm

Thiscai, designed to baffle and defeat
thieves, was unveiled in London
yesterday by Mr John Patten, Min¬
ister of State at the Home Office.

Austin Rover, which had been asked
by the Home Office to produce a top-
security car, said that neither a police
team nor an Independent car-crime
consultant had succeeded in gaming
access without badly damaging the
bodywork (Peter Evans writes). Even
with the windows smashed, the doors
could not be opened.

There is orient need for a crime-
proof car. From 1983 to 1987,
recorded theft or unauthorized taking
of vehicles increased by 19 per cent,
and theft from vehicles by 55 percent

What Austin Rover cadis its “sec¬

urity-concepts car” is basically a
Rover 800 Sterling. There are no
external door locks but a system
activated by an infra-red transmitter
in the car key. Removal of the key
from the steering column lock immo¬
bilizes the electronic management
system and prevents a “hot start” by
wiring the ignition to the battery.

The alarm system can be triggered
by the doors, bonnet and boot, and
incorporates an electronic sensor to
detect movement inside the car. A
continuity strip fitted on one side
triggers the alarm if a window is
broken. While the alarm is activated
the ignition is immobilized. On the
other side, laminated glass is fitted.

Wheel-rotation sensors are fitted to

detect movement if an attempt is
to tow the car away, and another
sensor detects any attempt to jade op
the car to remove the wheels. Locking
wheel-nuts are also fitted.

Since many thieves go for the radio-
cassette player, the company has split
the components, none of which will
work without the others. If the thief
gets at the radio-cassette player, the
battery supply will be cut and he win
be unable to use the unit because a
secret number known only to the
owner would have to be keyed in.

The chassis number has been added
to a plate which can be read through
the windscreen, and all important
components are identified by the same
number using tamper-proof labels

which are destroyed by removal. Any
attempt to steal petrol from the car
would meet an anti-sip bon fuel filler
and lockable petrol cap.

Austin Rover says that, with one
exception, the car meets all the
security standards under discussion
with the British Standards Institute.
The exception is the warbling sound
from the alarm and the associated
flashing headlamps. Both are illegal
under current “construction and use”
regulations but were tbougbtnecessary
to make the system frilly effective.

The company says that, because of
the cost, about £1,000, it is unlikely
that all these sophisticated systems
will become factory-fitted items on all
its cars.

450 sacked by Morgan Grenfell

Continued from page 1
saw confirmation on their
Topic screens at 9 am
yesterday.

One senior gilts dealer with
more than 16 years' service
with Pinchin Denny, the old
stockjobbing firm acquired by
Morgan Grenfell, told The
Times. “We heard on Friday
that something big was about
to happen, but it makes you
sick when you have to read it
in the papers first”

He added: “There have
been numerous management
meetings of late amid persis¬
tent rumours, but we on the
gihs side thought we were safe.
We have increased market
share in the spit market from 2
per cent to nearly 6 per cent,
and were doing rather nicely.

“So this has come like a bolt
out of the blue. They (the
management) have said that
they will redeploy some staff
on the gilts side, but I can't say

I would want to stay.”

Other dealers found it hard
to comprehend that the Mor¬
gan Grenfell management still
had felled to work out the
redundancy package. “Obvi¬
ously, the leaked story in the
press has caught them with
their pants down and they
have had to rush out with this
statement We have been told
to return to the offices tomor¬
row in order to hear news
about money, and I bet it will
be bearish.” said one dealer.

One senior partner, who
had been with the film for
more than 26 years, said:
“There have been plenty of
rumours recently about our.
operation, but obviously you
take no notice Of them. We
have been losing money like
everybody else, but I always
thought it was a case of swings
and roundabouts and that the
good times would return.

“However, Mien the worst

happens, it hurts. It is a great
shame and I only feel for the
good younger dealers of the
firm who have big mortgages
and a wife and children to
feed. Job prospects are nil in
the City at the moment and so
a lot of them are in for a long
hard winter.”

In La Marmaittoo, a French
restaurant popular with Mor¬
gan Grenfell staff; some
appropriately bought “suffer¬
ing bastards”, a lethal mix of
liqueurs guaranteed to ease
the pain.

Mr Mohamed Alim, man¬
ager of the restaurant, said:
“So many of my friends have
lost their jobs, people who
came in here after work every
evening to relax are shattered.

“Last night we had a big
Christmas party and everyone
had a good time: Many of
them got very drunk. Now we
shall not see them again.”

The company had tried to

impose a vow of silence on all
staff; but one dealer, married
with a young child, said:
“Why should we keep quiet?
Our jobs are gone, we have to
tell our wives, and Christmas
is coming."

Miss Joanne Gordine, aged
20, from Rayleigh, Essex, who
handled paperwork after a
deal was complete, cried Mien
she beard the news. “I was
very happy there.”

Another dealer had com¬
forting words for Morgan
Grenfell shareholders who
paid 500p a share at the time
of the flotation, but who have
seen them plummet to a low of
236p since the crash, before
rising to 310p yesterday.

“One thing is for sure; the
shares are a buy now that the
market-making operation is
out of the way. Somebody win
definitely take the leaner Mor¬
gan Grenfell over — and good
riddance to it”

Awaiting an attack
of Gorbymania

Continued from page 1
government spring new pro¬
posals on his opposite number
Mthout warning,” Dr Kissin¬
ger said on TV yesterday.

The Administration has
been hectically trying to nar¬
row down the likely areas ofa
Gorbachov surprise. The
main hints have suggested an
offer to reduce conventional
weapons in Europe, though
the Americans are also pre¬
pared for the possibility that
he will outline initiatives on
human rights, the Middle East
and Afghanistan.

As much as Mr Gorbachov
is scoring a hefty publicity
coup with his New York
sojourn with the American
public and among UN mem¬
bers, not everyone sees him in
a dominant position. Most
experts agree that be needs the

glory of an appearance on the
world stage to stiffen his
standing at a time of some
turmoil and uncertainty at
home.

In one extraordinary ses¬
sion with the press, Soviet
public figures argued among
themselves about the extent of
opposition to their leader. All
agreed it was substantial and
one — the director of the
Lenin-Komsomol theatre -
said a majority of the country
was against him.

His speech to the General
Assembly tomorrow, the first
by a Kremlin chief since
Khrushchev's harangue of
1960, is being officially de¬
picted as the high point in a
bout of statesmanship that has
included talks with 15 world
leaders since September.

Capitalist jungle, page 7

Political sketch

Teased Hilda gets
back at the bullies

Why are all MP5 called
Norman? WelL not quite all.
Some are Reggie. Ronnie or
Sian; most others answer to
Cyril or Cecil; a handful of
Archies and that's about it

Undoubtedly there are
more Normans in Parliament
than in the whole of the rest
of Britain. It cannot be
coincidence. Why are people
Mth ludicrous names driven
by some unseen force to
stand for election?

As with so many great
discoveries the answer came
to me by chance, while
pondering two other great
questions of our time. Why
can so few politicians pro¬
nounce their r*s? And why, as
Mills and Boon prepare to
choose “The most romantic
MP in the House", is not one
in an assembly of 650 even
remotely eligible?

In a flash it was all clear.
All three questions have the
same answer. A fPs were des¬
perately unpopular at school.

They were the boys and
girls who got teased in the
playground. Some had funny
names. Some had speech-
defects. Some had squidgey
little feces, awful freckles, or
problems Mth girls. And the
whole of their lives since,
have been a desparate at¬
tempt to compensate. Plump
little Kenneth hid in the loo
from the other boys, sobbing,
silently: “77/show them. One
day. Til be Secretary of State
for Education. Til wear flashy
ties and be popular with all
my mates.” Correct Miss
Margaret-Hikla flinched at
classmates' taunts: “Snobby-
Roberts! Snobby-Roberts!”
Inwardly she vowed to work
even harder, to be even more
superior, and — one day -■ to
be the first woman Prime
Minister in the Western
world, and end up a Duchess.

Thin, shy, studious young
Michael Meacher (“Mcacher,
Meacher, suck-up to the
Teacher") knew he’d grow up
to be a working-class hero.
Oh yes! They'd be sorry
they'd bullied the bloke they
now needed to protect them*
He'd stand at the Opposition
despatch-box, championing
the unemployed-

So he did yesterday, for
Employment Questions.
Opposite him was the Sec¬
retary of State. Who is called
Norman. And cannot pro¬
nounce his r’s. When he was
Minister of Transport his
Labour opposite number w3s
called Albert (really!) and
couldn’t pronounce r's either.

Their repartee on “redundant
British Rati rolling-stock"
was nchlv rewarding.

Someone called Conal
from York wanted to know
why some tourist informa¬
tion centres were closed in
winter - ”a national scan¬
dal". We moved on, to hear
Cyril from Rochdale. But
soon Cecil, from Barrow-in-
Furness (the Tory who ousted
Labour’s Albert) was on his
feet, worried (reading be¬
tween the lines) lest Nor¬
man's relaxing of the rules
about employing teenagers
might usher back chimney¬
sweeps.

A different Norman, from
diingford, looked in. This
Norman would have been
disappointed by the first Nor¬
man's moderate reply. Dale,
Derek and Kenneth (Work¬
ington, Leeds and Blackley*)
intervened.

Then on to a Mr Rookcr’s
question ("Rookcr! Rooker!
You're a silly ..." never
mind) where Bernard from
Castle Point came to Nor¬
man’s aid. Alistair's exchange
about Bury N proved in¬
teresting to Dafyd from
Caernarfon, so there was
hardly lime to hear Irvine,
from Sheffield. And none for _
Dudley (of Kensington),-
Archy from Roxburgh, or
Spencer from EJmcu As for
Hugo and Trevor (Waltham¬
stow and N Bed furs hire).-
there was no chance at all of
questions 79 and 80 being
reached.

For it was time for Prime
Minister's Questions with
Hilda. The first was from
Keith of Manchester, the-
second from a Ms Walley of
Stoke. Hugh, from Hornsey,
was away, but a freckled
person called Neil seemed
especially agitated, while a
chap called Robin Maxwell-
Hislop was furious about a
girl called Edwina.

With Hilda sat Tristan (a
whip, or class-monitor). In
garish tie was Kenneth who
(since our story started) has
become Education Secretary.
Still waiting at the back was
Sydney from Barnet Stand¬
ing at the Bar of the House, .
yet another Kenneth, from
Lincoln; next to a Miss
Fookes and a Mr Brandon-
Bravo.

The House never reached
Humphrey's question. They
Mil be disappointed, in
Croydon.

Matthew Parris

Water rates set to rise

Continued from page 1
privatization. Mrs Arm Tay¬
lor, the Labour frontbench
spokesman on the water in¬
dustry, said: “This shows that
water costs will rise even
before privatization. Their
aim is to raise prices to the
maximum before privati¬
zation takes place to ensure
maximum future return to the
shareholders.”

Mr Stanley HilL a member
of a water company board,
acquired the letter and pre¬
dicted that the companies,
providing a quarter of the

water supply in England and
Wales, would increase theit
charges by 10 per cent above
inflation next year.

The water authorities have
already been advised to keep
their tariff increases to just
under 10 per cent but the
daim that the companies may
increase their prices by 10 per
cent more than the inflation
rase will anger the Opposition
and cause misgivings among
government backbenchers.

The letter was sent to the
general managers of the water
companies on November 30.

THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE NO 17,846

ACROSS

1 Cover story — see article inside

( 6 ).

4 Cattle-truck often crashes iu race
(5-3).

10 Make a canister for this toy
diver (9).

11 Beyond a foreign sea, it's desert

rs).

12 In jest, ingest: a variant form (7).

13 Being unmanageable, I have to
go on holiday (7).

14 Twice nightly showing: 'Fighters
of Old England' (5).

15 Volunteer for grave purpose — I
Mil shortly receive thanks
(3A3X

18 Gives further consideration to a
point of drill (8).

20 Pronounce complete (5).

23 Collection of ballads, inter alia,
for poor woodcutter (3,4).

25 Religious scholar gazing about
himself in a whirl (7).

26 Sound of an animal (5).

27 Speak indirectly, but win argu¬
ment (4,5).

Concise crossword, page 20

28 Dominate by bowling spin (8).

29 King given pretentious cloak,
but it conies from the bean (6).

DOWN

1 Bird-dog mixture (8).

2 Hurried up to express criticism,
say (7).

3 Bluff in City — small change in
value (9).

5 Town where VAT is levied on
cue rests for billiards, including
pool (9,5).

6 French writer, eccentric and not
working (5).

7 Warm drink (7).

8 Breaking up an old borough (6).

9 Suit for an Amazon? (6-8L

16 The start of ream contains in¬
ferior paper (9).

17 Severe, smart externally, but
without emotion (8).

19 Cooked pie with preserve in
classy diner (7).

21 Platform for a Roman officer
(7)-

22 After a bomb explodes, there’s
nothing but grass (6).

24 Perfume is working on Jack (5).

WORD-WATCHING

A daily safari through the
language jungle. Which of the
possible definitions is correct?
By Philip Howard

TAAL

a. The scorer at bedtae

b. Afrikaans

c. A Babykmfau] coin
MISPICKEL

a. Arsenical pyrites
b- A mischievous tomboy
c. Gherkins or walHes

BUBO

a. A sword

b. An armoured cod-piece

c A longbow with spearhead
PTOSIS

a. A drooping eyelid

b. Mendadons mendidly

c. Dropping stress in a meter

Answers aa page 20

Solution to Puzzle No 17,845

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After a frosty start, it will
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quite a lot of sunshine, especially in the east and south, with a
ridge of high pressure covering Britain. The odd shower may
occur in the extreme north of Scotland and eastern East
Anglia at first. Western and northern Scotland will be
cloudier with some drizzle. Winds will be much li ghter than
yesterday. Outlook: Mostly dry, rain in northern Scotland.

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THE

TIMES

23

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 1988

BUSINESS AND FINANCE 23-29
MEDIA AND MARKETING 30,31

SPORT 38-42

Executive Editor
David Brewerton

Ladbroke
to buy US
race track

Ladbroke Group, the hotels to
racing group, has exercised an
option to buy The Meadows
race track near Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, for $17 million
(£9.10 million). The Meadows
is one of only four race courses
in the state of Pennsylvania
and had a turnover last year of
$75 million.

The deal came as a result o;
legislation passed by Penn¬
sylvania last week, which will
allow off-track betting but
only with owners of race
courses. Following the deal
Ladbroke will open six off.
track betting theatres.

Morgan quits market

after losses of £22.5m

By David Brewerton

MAHCASPLANO

Water plea

Northumbrian Water is trying
to have tbe £60 million take¬
over bids by Lyonnaise ties
Eaux for two North East
statutory water companies re¬
ferred to tbe Monopolies and
Mergers Commission.

Food group up

Northern Foods raised pre-tax
profits from £34.5 million to
£39.3 million in the six
months to end-September, on
sales £6 million ahead at
£511.2 million. Tbe interim
dividend is 4.75p, up O.Sp.

Tempts, page 24

Bond pledge

Mr Alan Bond has pledged
more than half his 21 percent
stake in Lonrho as security for
a loan facility from American
Express. Comment, page 25

STOCK MARKETS

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THE TIMES

0898 141 141

• Market news on Stock-
watch yesterday included:
the market was little
swayed by news of job
losses at Morgan Grenfell
(02768) which gained
lip. Willis Faber (01796),
a large shareholder, was
5p to the good. National
Westminster Bank
(01216) gained control of
a Paris stockbroker and
rose 3p. Hariand Simon
(01652) trebled profits
and ended the day 8p
firmer. The leisure market
did well as Fairline Boats
reported good results and
put on 8p.

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Morgan Grenfell has quit
market-making in eq¬
uities and gilt-edged
securities in the face of
rising losses. Mr John
Craven, chief executive,
said that having a market-
making business was
“having a licence to lose
money”.

The decision—with the loss
of 450 jots — effectively
means the group is the first big
company to abandon plans to
become a full-service, inte¬
grated securities bouse, al¬
though others are thought
likely to follow.

Morgan Grenfell said the
securities business had lost
£22.5 million in the last 11
months, of which £4.5 million
was in gilt-edged and the
major part in equities.

The toss figures are sharply
higher than indicated at the
halfway stage, when only £5
million had been lost. The
rapid acceleration in losses
follows the further deteriora¬
tion in market conditions in
the past three months.

Morgan Grenfell Securities
was founded on the bones of
Pinchin Denny, a former job¬
bing firm, and Pember &
Boyle, a broker specializing in
gilt-edged.

Mr Craven said he was
“feeing the consequences of
decisions made when Morgan
Grenfell opted to go into the
securites business about three
years ago, but opted not to
take the high road of buying a
major broker with a major
market presence”.

Morgan Grenfell neverthe¬
less carved outa market share
which fluctuated between 2
per cent and 3 per. dent in
equities, and amounted to 5
per cent in gilts. Mr Craven
said that “to be able to win
through to the stage where we
had a few per cent of the
market would have been a
miraculous feat”. The firm
had been aiming fen* a 6 per
cent market share in equities.

News of the withdrawal —
while deeply unpopular
among staff who read about it
in their newspapers or on their
dealing screens — was wel¬
comed by others in tbe City,
who see at least one compet¬
itor removed from the game.

Mr Robert Cowell, manag¬
ing director of Hoare Govett
Securities, commented that
“there has to be more capacity
taken out of the markeL The
top eight securities houses act
for every listed company in
the UK, but those without a
corporate list have nothing to
fell back on**.

Morgan, despite its impres¬
sive client list on the banking
and corporate finance sides,
never managed to build a

Brave faces: Analysts Graham Morgan, aged 20, and Julia Hawkins, aged 24, leaving the office after clearing their desks.

corporate list in its broking
operations, which reflects the
feet that it did not start by
buying a major broker.

However, the decision to
pull out reflects a total reversal
of the message being put out
by Mr Craven in September,
when he said not only that the
company was committed to
building a securities business,
but that the integrated houses
would be the only winners in
the battle for market share.

Morgan Grenfell shares,
floated at 500p just over two

Hard-pressed dealers begin
worrying over next casualty

By Richard Thomson, Banking Correspondent

Leading article
City Diary...-

.15

.25

years ago. rose sharply after
the decision was announced,
and closed 1 lp to the good at
31 Op.

Mr Craven said the “plan¬
ned restructuring” would as¬
sist the remaining core
businesses (asset man¬
agement. banking and cor¬
porate finance) “to develop
with fewer constraints” and
that the overall prospects of
the group “are excellent”.

Mr Cowell believes that as
more firms start making their
budgets for next year, they will
have to accept that losses in
market-making are too heavy
to cany and will pull out.

Morgan Grenfell’s withdrawal
from securities trading cansed
little surprise in the City
where hard pressed dealing
firms have for months been
expecting a major casualty in
the stock market shakeout.

■ The City's workforce has
dumped by more than 17,000
over the last year, according to
the Banking, Insurance and
Information Union. Among
international banks and
securities houses there has
been a 20 per cent fen In
employment since the crash.

The number of employees
has declined from about
72,000 to58,000- roughly the
level before foe pre-Big Bang
reenritment drive two years
ago. Although there have been
several large and well-pabli-
cized redundancy packages
most jobs have been lost in a
steady trickle.

“The problem is simple,”
said Mr John Macfariane,
managing director of Citicorp
Scrimgeonr Vickers: “In the

current conditions market
makers' revenues are mas¬
sively outpaced by their
costs." Since most firms do not
expect an early improvement
in equity trading volumes fur¬
ther redundancies and
withdrawals are regarded as
inevitable.

A nervous stock market was
rife with rumours. Despite
persistent City speculation
CSV vehemently denied any
intention to cut back Its
commitment to the equity
markets. Other houses said to
be on foe verge of reducing
their commitment include
Chase Manhattan — which
has already scaled down its
holdiiq; in its London securi¬
ties operation — Shearson
Lehman, the US investment
bank, and Beimvort Benson
Securities.

one of the most successful
British Investment banks since
Big Bang, was the subject of
redundancy speculation.

All stockmarfcet firms are
under pressure as revenues
have declined. CSV calculates
that the revenees of stock
market firms now amount to
about £300 million, compared
with costs of £500 to £600
million a year.

BZW, tbe securities arm of
Barclays Bank, also denied
suggestions that it was plan¬
ning redundancies. Even SG
Warburg,- widely regarded as

The post-Big Bang erosion
of commission levels has not
helped but more recently Che
low stock market turnover and
a price war on dealing spreads
has had a catastrophic effect
Mr Howard Coates, head of
BZW's UK research, esti¬
mates that the competitive
cutting of dealing spreads by
30 per cent in August has
meant a loss in revenues of
about £200 mfllion.

Bid has curbed
competition
says Plessey

By Derek Harris, Industrial Editor

Plessey, target of a hostile £1.7
billion bid from the General
Electric Company (GEC) and
Siemens of West Germany,
has unleashed its first major
counter attack by claiming
that foe bid move has “gravely
prejudiced” Plessey’s position
as a competitor of GEG

The accusation is under¬
stood to be contained in a
confidential letter from Pless¬
ey’s legal advisers to the Office
of Fair Trading urging that
G£C should not be released
from its undertaking not to
acquire more than a 15 per
cent stake in Plessey. This was
given in 1986 when a
Monopolies and Mergers
Commission investigation
quashed GECs previous at¬
tempted takeover of Plessey.

Plessey says the new bid has
halted a series of competitive
moves, including a number of
acquisitions. The letter appar¬
ently claims there arc 21
instances of Plessey actions
which have been halted by the
bid and that in 14 cases the
“stopper” has operated di¬
rectly to the benefit of GEC as
a competitor of Plessey. In the
other cases the “general
weakening” of Plessey was of
indirect benefit to GEC, the
letter claims.

The Plessey broadside came
as GEC was unveiling better-
than-expected interim results
showing turnover at £3.07
billion, up 15 per cent, and
pre-tax profits just over 10 per
cent higher at £313 million.
An interim dividend of 2,15p
was up 19 per cent

GEC shares ended up 3p at
I78p.

Most of GECs businesses
were doing well and results
were a positive response to
recent reorganization of core
activities. Lord Prior, chair¬
man, said in a letter to
shareholders. Exports were up
10 per cent to £581 million
while the export order book
exceeds £2 billion.

Profits on United Kingdom
operations were up nearly 16
per cent and those in the
Americas by just over 38.5 per

cent The cash mountain has
shrunk 5 per cent to £1-24
billion following acquisitions.

The Plessey letter to the
OFT claims that the “highly
anti-competitive” effects of
the new bid were clearly
foreseeable and urges that a
decision on the undertaking
be made before the year end to
stop GEC continuing to gain a
competitive benefit.

In a crucial passage, the
letter maintains that Siemens
going in as a partner in the bid
is “arguably” not a material
change since GECs previous
bid. The letter says that any
company finding itself prohib¬
ited from taking over a
competitor could escape

GEC is to invest a further £20
million in expanding produc¬
tion capacity at its turbo
generator factory at Larne,
County Antrim, its second
Investment of this size at tbe
factory within two years. The
latest programme, involving
(equipment and reorganiza¬
tion of the 500,000 sq ft
factory, will add 40 jobs to tbe
present 720. The factory
makes heavy beat-exchanger
equipment for power stations.

undertakings not to do so
“simply by finding a conti¬
nental partner to join in the
exercise accompanied by par¬
rot cries of‘1992V’

Among the Plessey moves
affected are understood to be a
major European cross
shareholding arrangement in
foe defence sector and ac¬
quisition talks in five separate
situations, including an in¬
terest in a European defence
company. All are part of
Plessey’s drive to increase its
defence interests as it com¬
petes with GEC
Two big technology ex¬
change arrangements are also
said to have been affected.

There could also be delay in
the separate placing of a
proportion of shares in
Hoskyns, the computer ser¬
vices company, as required by
the Stock Exchange.

£158m Compass float

Market makers believe that
most firms will bold on for a
few more months before reduc¬
ing their dealing exposure.

A £157.9 million price tag has
been placed on Compass
Group, the contract catering
business bought by its man¬
agement from Grand Metro¬
politan, which is coming to
the stock market through an
offer for sale (Cliff Fellham
writes).

The shares have been priced
at a cautious 245p, or 12.6
times historic earnings.

Mr John Nelson, managing
director of Lazard Brothers,
the merchant bank handling

the issue, said: “We have
obviously taken into account
market conditions, and we
derided it was better to have a
good performance in the after¬
market rather than go for a
high price.”

Lazard is offering 38 per
cent of tbe company, which
will raise £55.2 million after
expenses.

In the year to end-Sepiem-
ber. Compass made a pre-tax
profit of £13.3 million after
£12 million interest charges.

Trafalgar outlook brighter
on 40% increase to f229m

By Graham Searjeant, Financial Editor

After two years of his Trafal¬
gar House group being in the
shadows. Sir Nigel Broackes,
the chairman, emerged into
the sunshine at his Ritz Hotel
to unveil a 40 per cent rise in
pre-tax profits to £229 million
for the year to end-September.

“Barring any setback in
world economic growth, cir¬
cumstances are now set fair
■for a good performance on all
fronts, with commensurate
growth in earnings per share,
he said.

Trafalgar’s property and
investment division boosted
its operating profit from £106
million to £149 minion, most¬
ly from housebuilding.

But Sir Nigd said house¬
building profits should not be
hit badly by the latest mort¬

gage rises. Although unit safes
ought be lower, profit margins
had grown sharply during
1987-88, and were still
healthy.

The group is looking for
growth this year and beyond,
chiefly because of a record £2
billion commercial property
development programme,
which Sir Nigel says is too well

te Tempos.

**___

.24

spread to be vulnerable to
temporary weaknesses — for
instance in demand in the
City.

Trafalgar has, for the time
being, abandoned the sale of
its oil and gas interests which
were proposed in August,
because it wants to wait until

it can obtain a better price:

Mr Eric Parker, Trafa lg ar’s
chief executive and deputy
chairman, has launched an
initiative to sort out some of
the group's complex con¬
sortium freight shipping com¬
panies, such as Atlantic
Containers and Associated
Container Transportation
(Australia).

He feels that, if ownership
were unified and agencies
taken in, overhead savings
could reach £20 million. “But
it will not be easy,” he said.

He is also on the lookout to
buy an extra five-star pas¬
senger liner, but could build a
new one in Japan to serve the
Japanese cruise market, which
Trafalgar believes presents a
great opportunity.

Leucadia
bids for
Cambrian

By John Bell, Qty Editor
Leucadia National Corpora¬
tion, the US financial group,
has launched a takeover bid
for Cambrian & General, the
former investment vehicle of
insider dealer, Mr Ivan
Boesky.

Leucadia has been building
up its holding in Cambrian
recently and at the last count
held 28 per cent of its capital.

Terras of the offer are 108p
in cash for each ordinary share
of Cambrian and 120p cash
for each Cambrian capital
share. This values the whole of
Cambrian at about £68
million.

Leucadia launched the offer
through Camacq Corporation,
a specially formed subsidiary.

The bid is likely to meet
resistance.

Growth fore cast for industrialized nations lifted to 4.25%

IMF chief warns on monetary policy

From Bailey Morris, Montreal

M Michel Camdessus, managing direc¬
tor of the International Monetary Fund,
warned yesterday that policies in tlw
industrialized countries that have led to
higher interest rates in recent weeks
could dangerously retard the adjusonent
process in the Group of Seven nations.

At the same time he disclosed that the
IMF had revised upwards its growth
forecast for tbe industrialized countries
which he said would rise to 4.25 per cent
this year, the highest rate since the
beginning of the 1970s. Growth has
continued strong _ without a corres¬
ponding rise in inflation, which _ M
Camdessus said was surprising- Inflation
would remain at 3.2 per cent this year.

The strong growth, which was most
notable in Europe, presented a “window
of opportunity” to the G.7 countries to
begin dismantling restrictive trade prac¬
tices which had increased and would
retard growth, M Camdessus said.

He expressed strong concern that
heavy reliance on monetary policy m the

US and other countries could bring
severe economic disruptions. He urged
the G7 nations to balance their policies
through substantive fiscal measures,
which was seen as a reference to the US's
failure to address its budget deficit.

“Interest rates of course are rising,
world oil prices are rising, and the dollar
is where it was at the beginning of tbe
year. lam concerned that foe policy does
not take into account the adjustment
process,” M Camdessus said, at a
briefing during the meeting of world
trade minis ters gathered in Canada
under the auspices of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt).

M Camdessus made an unusually
strong appeal for positive movement on
the trade from which he said was linked
inexorably to debt. He said the indus¬
trialized countries, which were under
strong pressure in Montreal to agree to
reform m agriculture, trade in services,
and tariff reductions, could not afford to
“wait for success in exchange rates”
before dismantling their restrictive poli¬
cies. To wait would be “suicidal”.

particularly in the context of the debt
problems of developing countries.

M Camdessus said ministers should
adopt a common international strategy
for trade. New IMF studies revealed,
however, that as the industrialized
nations were ex peri racing the most
favourable economic growth of the
decade, they were adopting the most
restrictive trade policies which were
harming the developing world.

One of the proposals at Montreal,
supported by the IMF, was a provision
that would result in a new surveillance
role for Gatt similar to the IMF's role in
pressing countries to adopt sound eco¬
nomic policies in return for new loans.
But Gatt would be presang nations to
adopt sound trade policies and would
not be offering new money.Many
developing nations oppose the new role.

M Camdessus’s address came as US
and European officials met behind
dosed doors to try to break a stalemate
over agriculture and uarfe in services.
Reach officials were pessimistic that
agreement on key areas could be reached.

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BUSINESS ROUNDUP

Harland Simon soars
182% to record £ 1.1 m

Strong growth in all activities pushed half-time profits cp 182
per cent to a record £1.134 million at Harland Simon, the
electrical and computer systems designer. Sales rose 133 per
cent to £14 million. Mr David Mahony, chairman, «a the
group achieved budgeted levels of business over the first half
bat the incidence of contract completions strongly favoured
the second half. The group continued to pursue its policy of
seeking strong organic growth with additional contributions
coming from carefully selected acquisitions, he said.

The half year saw a significant development of the group
irith the acquisition of F&H Controls, which would n w k e a
positive bat modest contribution this year. Shareholders will
receive an interim dividend of Ip against 0.6p last year.

£3.3m buys
for Osprey

Osprey Communications,
the advertising and market¬
ing services group, has ac¬
quired two companies,
Acute-Marketing & Com¬
munications Group pod Cre¬
ative Saks, for a maximum
£33 million. There wfll be
Ini tial payments totalling
£917,000, of which £742,000
will be financed through a
share issue.

£1.5m stake
for Norfolk

Norfolk House, the petrel
station and property dev¬
elopment company, is paying
£13 million for a two-thirds
stake in Free Room (UK), a
company set up to market
free hotel accommodation by
way of travel incentives and
sales promotions. The busi¬
ness made profits of
£ 216 , 000 for the nine months
to the end of March.

Departures hit Atkins

The early retirement of two directors has hit Atkins B rothers
(Hosiery), the textiles group, which saw pre-tax profits toll
from £513,000 to £390,000 in the six months to September 30.
The retirement MU of £162400 more than wiped ont a small
increase in operating profits from £544,000 to £573 00. The
shares fell I Op to 378p. The company has expressed concern
about the effect of interest rates and inflation on trading.

Turnover increased from £844 miHkra to £9.25 raflHon.
Earnings per share were down from 8.76p to &64p. The
company raised the interim dividend from 34p to 33p.

Booth profit
jumps 84%

Booth Industries, the struc¬
tural steel fabricator, has
reported an 84 per cent
increase in pre-tax profits to
£242,000 in the half year to
end-September, and forecast
a better trading performance
in the second half ami
opportunities from planned
North Sea development A
0.6p dividend compares with
0375p last time.

TGI up 56%
to £1.64m

TGI, the maker of hi-fi
loudspeaker systems, re¬
ported a 56 per cent rise in
profits to £144 nuDion in the
half year to end-September.
Group sales, which include
the Goodmans, Tannoy and
Mordant-Start brands,
daubed 27 per cent to £21
million. Shareholders wfll
receive an interim dividend
of 2p per share.

( TEMPUS )

Trafalgar steams out of the
doldrums with property boost

1985

1988

Much was expected from
Trafalgar House, if only for
the effects of the housing
boom cm a group producing
5,000 units a year. The out¬
come was at the top end of
forecasts, with pre-tax profits
up 40 per cent to £229 million
on turnover just 13 per cent
higher at £2.7 billion.

Last year's £300 million
pseudo rights issue ensured
that the gains were more
modest further down the
profit and loss account But
earnings per share were still up
16 per cent to 36.6p.

The 10 per cent rise in
dividends to 16p per share was
also understandable; given
that cover had been falling in
the two previous thin years.

After stuttering briefly to
life, however, Trafalgar shares
speedily relapsed from 31 Op to
304p, valuing tire once glam¬
orous group at 83 times
naming s and cm a dividend
yield of 7 percent

Trafalgar is definitely out of
favour, as it bas been since the
oil price collapse of 1985
knocked its growth record,
costing perhaps £30 million-
plus a year.

One disappointment was
that since tire oil and gas
division was put up for sale in
August, no acceptable bids
have been received. Trafalgar
is, therefore, hanging on for
the tune being to a business
returning £7 million profit on
£28 million revenue, but
which the market hoped it
might sell for £120 millio n

The other drawback is hous¬
ing, which accounted for more
than half the £149 millio n

operating profit from property Arovll GrOUt)

and inve s tm en t — a nd there - r ^ J -oj XM ‘

fore a third of group profits. with so much misery in the

But Trafalgar is in no mood market generally, and in the
for modesty about that Unit stores sector in particular, it is

1987

1988

sales may be down this year by
up to a fifth but it reckons
margins widened so much
during 1987-88 that profi ts
should stay up or even rise.

Construction should im¬
prove after a standstill £54
million profit on stagnant
turnover of £136 billion. And
there is enough confidence
about hotels and shipping
(where profits rose 54 per cent
to £47 million on turnover np
a third to £610 million) for
talk ofbuying more hotels and
an extra luxury liner.

The main emphasis, how¬
ever, is on the group's record
£2 billion property dev¬
elopment programme, with
more than doubled £681 mil¬
lion worth of developments
for sale at the year-end.

This immediate earnings
momentum makes the shares
good value and there is still
enough en tr eprene uri al excite¬
ment to add long-term spice.

refreshing to find some good
cheer at AigyU Group.

In essence, Argyll’s am¬
bition is nothing less than to
move up the food chain to
challenge Tesco and Salis¬
bury for market leadership.

Argyll's Safeway chain is
already challenging Tesco on
the margin front — Tesco is
fractionally ahead at 4.77 per
cent, compared with Safe-
way's 4.7 per cent. However,
there is a long way to go before
it approaches Sainsbury's 6.45
percent.

Argyll's margin growth was
limited to a 02 percentage
point rise to 4.7 per cent in the
first hal£ partly because of the
accelerated pace of the conver¬
sion of the Presto chain into
Safeways. Last year only seven
Prestos were converted on a
base of 133 Safeway stores.
This year 55 are being con¬
verted on a base of 176
Safeways, a rate which puts
considerable stress on the
business.

The benefits are coming
through in turnover growth
already. Of total turnover of
£1.9 billion in the first halfi £1
billion came from Safeway

stores, representing a rise of 50
per cent. Of this, 3.5 per cent
was due to inflation and 43 per
cent was attributable to new
space, leaving an underlying
rate of sales growth of 3.5 per
cent on a like-for-like basis,
Comparing favourably with
the competition.

The group's ambition is to
double total sales to £4 billion
by 1991, 85 per cent of which
will be from Safeway. It will
have 6.5 million sq ft ofselling
space, rivalling Sainsbury in
terms of sin.

However, at£ll its sales per
sq ft will still be significantly
less than Sainsbury's £17. But
Safeway will then be of a size
that will allow it to spend
significantly on developing
the Safeway own-label brand
and new product marketing,
allowing it to inch up sales per
sqft.

For the foil year, Argyll's
profits should rise by 18 per
cent to £207 million pre-tax.
The prospective multiple of
10.7 is a reflection of negative
sentiment on the sector, rather
than Argyll's above-average
prospects within it.

Northern

Foods

Northern Foods* return to
favour on the stock market
has as much to do with the rise
and rise of the Marks and
Spencer television dinner as
the continuing presence of
Hadewood Foods as a 3.6 per
cent shareholder.

Hazlewood was warned off
by Marks, Northern's biggest
customer, earlier this year —
some say just hours before it
planned to bid—and takeover

talk is now definitely off the
menu at Northern itself as it
continues to shed its former
stodgy image as a downmarket
milkman and baker.

Pre-tax profits up 14 per
cent to £393 million at tixe
half-year were in line with
expectations. The smartest
rise, of 43 per cent, came in
meats, where reorganization
at Bowyers, as well as a
pruning of its distribution
network, started a recovery.

The switch from fully-
owned to franchised milk
rounds continued in the dairy
group, lifting earnings by 13
percent.

But the real expansion
should come within conve¬
nience foods, in the television
dinners — although this is an
unfair term for the cornucopia
now available, with 53 new
lines sold to Marks during the
half year alone.

Sales in convenience foods
rose 26 per cent, with profits
up by much the same despite
disruption as the group put in
more plant, implying no
weakening of margins m ex¬
change for volume growth.

Expansion into the Conti¬
nent —where chilled, prepared
meals are still a novelty — and
into the US is a long-term aim.
Until then. Northern has no
exposure to currencies, while
its low gearing protects it from
rising interest rates.

Pre-tax profits of £87 mif-'
lion; forecast by Barclays de
Zoeie Wedd, for the current
year, would suggest a respect¬
able p/e multiple of exactly 10,
on a price up Ip at 275p
yesterday, while an Up total
dividend implies a 5.4 percent
yield.

The shares offer high-qual¬
ity earnings and continuing
good growth.

ITL makes
cuts after
£2.5m loss

A severe cost-cutting pro¬
gramme is under way at ITL
information Technology,
involving an 8 per cent cut m
staff, after the group lost £2.5
million in the half year to
October 16.

The board said it was
working to improve prod¬
uctivity and project man¬
agement, In the first half of
last year ITL made profits of
£352,000. There is no divi¬
dend, though there may be
one at the full year, says the
company.

Turnover dropped 10 per
cent from £14.5 million to £13
million due, says the com¬
pany, to a lower opening order
book and a disappointing level
of orders for Momentum com¬
puter systems. The loss was
primarily due to poorer com¬
puter sales and lower margins
on bought-in equipment.

Crosby profit
up to £1.29m

Dearer mortgages are having
little impact on the profits of
James Crosby group, the up¬
market house builder which
operates mainly in the North¬
west. Reporting a 62 per cent
increase in half-time profits to
£1394 million. Mr Michael
Burgess, the chairman, said
trading continued strong.

There was a 67 per cent rise
in interim dividend to lp per
share.

Dividend at
Reliant Motor

Shareholders in Reliant Motor
group received a bullish report
from Mr John Nash, the
chairman, who said: "The
group is now viable, has cash
in the bank, and can com¬
mence a dividend policy."

Mr Nash also revealed that
Reliant was negotiating an
acquisition and reported prof¬
its of £172.000 for the year
ended September 30
(£153,000). The dividend is
ftp per share.

Trafalgar House.This year we’re in
better shape than ever.

The results for die year to Septanber 1988
represent a return to growth in earnings per
share and lead to increasing confidence within
the operating divisions. Turnover increased to
£2,676 million in 1988 compared with £2368
million in 1987, reflecting increased activity in
Property and Shipping.

Property and Investment had an out¬
standing year and is wdl placed for further
expansion. Trafalgar House Developments and
Ideal Homes are firmly established as major
participants in die U K- market. Progress is
being made in expanding our property activi¬
ties in the USA and Europe. The temporary
increase in seeding in te res t rates is untikdy to
impact an the fundamental demand for prime
commercial and residential property.

For Construction and Engineering, it
was a year of amsofidatioo. Lack of inter¬
national construction orders was offset by
improvement in the UK. market and excel¬
lent results from John Brown’s worldwide
business.

Shipping and Hotels saw the return to a
full year's operation by the QE2 and the con¬
tinued expanaonafour 5 star leisure activities.
The first stage of the Canard EUerman ration¬
alisation plan for Cargo Shipping was
implemented.

Despite a difficult year. Oil and Gas
marginally increased its operating profit.

1988 Results

£m

Increase

Property and
Investment

149.1

41%

Construction
and Er@neering

533

1%

Shipping and Hotels

465

54%

08 and Gas

6 9

23%

Operating Profit

2560

32%

Profit before Tax

229J

40%

Onfinary Dividend

16.0p

10%

Earnings per share

36.6p

16%

The 1988 Report and Accounts will be posted
to shareholders on 15th December L988.
Copies may be obtained from the Secretary,
1 Berkeley St, London W1A IB Y.

TRAFALGAR

HOUSE

THIS A0VERTIS6fc6iNT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY TOUCHE BOSS ft CO WHO IS AUTHORS® TO CARRY ON HVT5TW9C BttSWESS BY T>E WSTTTUTE OF CHARTERED ACCtXJNTXKTSVI ENGLAfC W© WHIES.

BPB Industries fined £2.1m
for monopoly violations

The European Commission
yesterday imposed a £2.1 mil¬
lion fine on BPB Industries
Limited, and its subsidiary
British Gypsum Limited, for
illegal monopoly practices in
Britain and Ireland in 1986
and 1987.

Following a complaint by
Iberian Trading (UK) Lim¬
ited, an importer of Spanish
plasterboard, the Commission
found evidence that BPB had
been operating a system of
“fidelity payments" to British
builders’ merchants, on con¬
dition they obtained their
supplies from BPB. The Com-

Frora Michael Dynes, Brussels

mission also found evidence
that, during a period of
plasterboard shortage, BPB
bad granted companies who
stocked British Gypsum plast¬
erboard considerably more
favourable delivery dates, in
violation of the Community's
competition policy.

BPB is the world’s second
largest plasterboard producer
and the largest in Europe, with
plants in the United King¬
dom, Ireland, France, Ger¬
many and Belgium. Consol¬
idated net turnover in 1986-87
topped £750 million.

The Commission said: "It is

well established under the
EEC competition rules that
action by firms in a dominant
market position to tie up
customers is liable to amount
to a violation of Article 86 of
the Treaty.” -

It added: "BPB Industries
held market shares of over 90
per cent, and was the only
producer of plasterboard in
Britain and Ireland.

"The exclusionary practices
were liable to affect interstate
trade by making it more
difficult for imports from
other member states to enter
the market.”

Anglia
Secure at
£7.5m

By Cliff Fettham

Anglia Secure Homes, which
bonds and manages retire¬
ment homes has no fears that
dearer mortgages will affect its
end of the housing market
The company, which sold
600 homes for the year to
September 30, is aiming for
between 800and 900 this year.

’ Mr Peter Edmondson, the
chairman, said: "The current
slowdown of the housing mar¬
ket has not affected our sales
programme so far.”

Anglia yesterday reported
full-year pre-tax profits of £73
million, meeting the forecast
made when it bought the
Alfred McAlpine Retirement
Homes business. Earnings per
share doubled to 343p.

The company turned in £3.8
million in the previous year.
Brokers are footing for about
£12.5 million in the current
year.

Shareholders collect a final
dividend of 22Sp, boosting
the total for the year to 4p,
double the previous payout

RECENT ISSUES

Shortages ‘forcing up 9
Scottish office rents

By Om City Staff

An undersupply of office
space in Glasgow and Edin¬
burgh was forcing up rents at
rates not seen outside London
and central Birmingham, said
Mr David Walton, the chair¬
man of Scottish Metropolitan
Property.

The board was optimistic
about growth over the next
years in the Scottish business
com m u n ity, which was gen¬
erally healthy notwithstanding

the levels of borrowing and
unemployment, he told the
company's annual meeting.

Mr Walton said that Ben
Mhor House in Epsom,
Surrey, built in association
with London and Northern
Developments, was sold yes¬
terday for £2.46 m. All 12
office Mocks at Crawley, Sus¬
sex, were now either sold or
under offer, as were the seven
office blocks at Southampton.

COMPANY-BRIEFS

COMT. STATIONERY (lnt)
Pre-tax: £0.802 (£02)m
EPS:3.75p(1.67p)

Ohr 0.90p (0.75p)

LEOPOLD JOSEPH (lnt)
Pre-tax.: n/a
EP&nfa
Drv:3.l0p (2.81 p)

BOGOD-PELB»AH (lnt)
Pre-tax: £98.000(£94,000)
EPS: 0.60p (036p)

One 0.1 p

Sales through the UK Prontaprint
outlets have been growing at annual
rateof 16 per cent Turnover
£7.68 million (£3.92 minion).

The cost of dividend is £162,975.
The company is confident there
win be a successful outcome
to the current year.

Board reports that level of activity
te senitar to that of last year and
s'™}*? results. Turnover
£3.05 mHfion (£2.92 million}.

EQUITIES

ApoDo Watch Prods
SmSS fliep)

Bfstciifay Motor Gp
Bastion

British Steel PIP
BucfcnaB Aust niOp)
Bulkier Gp (125p)

CtedweB inv
Capital Leasing
Channel Express

CNeMft Group (82p)
Cotonade (138p)

Com-Tek 16 1-&p)

Darby Group (lisp)
Dawson Group
EW Fact

EcSntturgh HtoemSan (55p)

KronwnpNc Pic
Nat Telecom (is

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190

146

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110

156+2

28

79+1

100

134

16

145

154

Unit Group
RIGHTS ISSUES

Amercoeir N/P
Britannia N/P
Beet Mach N/P
Goal Pet N~

Hickson N/

Pavfflon
Quadrant

Ratnws NJ

Select

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145-3
70

16's +’s
135
183
159 +1
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64-2
161 -2
147

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METROPOLITAN
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RESULTS FOR THE YEAR T015 AUGUST 1988

“V&y satisfactory results from a
clear strategy fulfil thepromise
Excitingfitture in prospect?

W Pre-tax profits increased 18 . 7 % to
£9.26 million.

T Earnings per share up 20 . 7 % to 6.35p.

V Dividend increased 10 , 9 % to 5 . 1 p.

V Net asset value per share up 37.2% to
178.8p.

fiflVid WfaltOn, CSIJJP LLD Hon FRCPS (Glass )
CHAIRMAN

Stock Exdhai
Glasgow G21BE.

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 1988

BUSINESS AND FINANCE

25

Safeways supermarkets contribute more than half of £1.9bn turn over

Argyll soars to interim £100m

By Carol Ferguson

DENOL

Argyll Group, which owns the
Safeway supermarket chain,
bucked the retailing trend
yesterday with a SO per cent
leap in turnover and a 24 per
cent rise in pre-tax profits
before exceptional* at the half-
year stage. The shares rose
strongly on the news, dosing
up S'/zp at 166%p.

Mr Alistair Grant, Argyll's
chairman and chief executive,
said that Safeway was growing
strongly as a proportion of
group sties. Jn the first half of
this year, Safeway had sales of
£1. billion, just over half the
total group turnover of £1.9
billion. “The scale of the
Safeway 1990s programme is
immense." Mr Grant said.
“From a base of 133 stores - 2
million square feet of sales
area — at the time of its
acquisition by Argyll in Feb¬
ruary 1987, Safeway is
planned, through Presto
conversions and new store
openings, to triple its size by
March 1991.

“It is projected that by that
time Safeway wjU be operating
some 400 stores with a total
sales area in excess of 6.S
million sq ft”

He said that a better-thau-
expected profit improvement
had been received from the
conversion of Argyll’s Presto

The scale of the Safeways programme is irnipense*: Alistair Grant, chairman of Argyll, welcomes strong first-half resnlts

chain to Safeways, and added
that turnover by converted
stores had improved by SS per
cent

Safeway opened five new
stores in the first half, and a
further 17 will be opened in
If. Aftei

the second half. After

converting SO Presto stores to
Safeway, there will be 244
Safeway stores by March
1989.

Pre-tax profits before excep¬
tional items rdatinp to the
accelerated conversion pro¬
gramme amounted to £100

minion, helped by a jump in
interest income from £43
million to £10.8 million, a
result of the recent rights
issue.

The exceptional charge in
the half year was £5.4*million,
compared with £16.8 million

last year. After exceptional,
the rise in pre-tax profits was
11 percent.

Famfngc per share rose by
23 per cent before excep¬
tionals, 11 per cent after. A17
per cent jump in the dividend
was declared, to Zip net

MS leaps
to interim
£I.85m

MS International, the defence
and mechanical engineering
group, had a 42 per cent rise in
pre-tax profits from £1.30
million to £1.85 million, for
the six months to October 29.

The increase came despite a
fall in turnover from £21.54
million to £15.65 million, af¬
ter the sale of the mining
equipment business to Dob¬
son Park for £1Z5 million.

Earnings per share are 4.3p
(3.4p) and the interim divi¬
dend is 0.9p (0.75p).

LIG change

Mr Alan Woltz, chairman and
chief executive of London Int¬
ernational Group, has named
his apparent successor. Mr
Anthony Butterworth, aged
51, formerly president of
Chesebrough-Pond’s Interna¬
tional, is to be managing direc¬
tor and chief operating officer.

Mecca beats forecast

By Oiff Feftham

Mr Michael Guthrie's Mecca
team have beaten the profit
forecast made during the bit¬
ter but successful takeover
battle for the Pfeasurama
entertainments group.

For the 12 months to the
end of September Mecca
made profits before tax of
£25.4 million, a rise of 71 per
cent That compares with a
forecast of £25.2 ntiUton.

Earnings per share work out
at 17.8p, an increase of 42 per

cent The Mecca group, now
in the throes of being inte¬
grated with Pleasununa, saw
all divisions performing
strongly.

The British holiday camps,
which include the holiday
centres bought from
Ladbroke, boosted trading
profits from £2.6 milli on to
just over £11 million.

Social clubs benefited from
increased admissi ons and
raised profits by 13 per cent to

£9.7 million, while the
entertainments and catering
side pushed up earnings to
£4.9 milli on from £43 mil¬
lion. Property disposals threw
up a profit of £2.9 million
(£859,000).

Shareholders will receive a
final dividend of 2.75p, mak¬
ing a total for the year of 4.5p,
an increase of 23 per cent

The next accounts wlQ be
for the 15 month period to the
end of December.

Coalite advances to £19.3m

Profits rise

YeUowhammer, the advertis¬
ing and marketing group,
made £911,000 pre-tax profits
in the opening six months of
the year, up from £905,000
before. Earnings per share are
unchanged at 5.5p. The in¬
terim dividend is (Ip) 0.75p.

Front runner

Grand Metropolitan has
emerged as the from runner to
lake over Wienerwald, a West
German chain of fast food
restaurants.

Logitek up

Logitek, the computers* distri¬
butor, raised pre-tax profits by
41 per cent to £1.25 million in
the half year to end-Septem-
ber. The interim dividend is
l-2p(0.9p).

French stake

Nomura International is ac¬
quiring a 10 per cent stake in
Francois-Dufour Kervero, a
Paris stockbroker.

By Omr City Staff

Coalite, the Falkland Islands
forming to smokeless fod
group chaired by Mr Eric
Variey, the former Labour
Energy Secretary, earned pre¬
tax profits of £19.3 million in
the first six months of this
year. This compares with
£17.5 million last year.

Earnings per share rose
from 11.45p to 13.05p and the
interim dividend goes up from
23p to Z75p-

Sales of Coalite, the solid
smokeless fuel were slightly
down at the half-way stage
because merchants were still
sitting on unsold stocks left

Eric Variey: abetter balance

over after last winter’s mild
weather.

Mr Variey said that the

group had now integrated the
fuel oil distribution operations
of Chamngtons and Har¬
greaves, the Yorkshire group
acquired at the end of1986 for
£99 million.

Coalite suffered only a mar¬
ginal impact on its profits
from the Piper Alpha disaster
which caused the Claymore
field, in which it has a small
s take, to cease production for
a time.

The outcome for the fuD
year mil depend on the sever¬
ity of the winter, but Mr
Variey says the group now has
a better balance between its
energy and non-energy activ¬
ities. The shares slipped 2p to
326p.

Subroto urges support on oil curbs

The Organization of Petro¬
leum Exporting Countries yes¬
terday called for support from
non-Opec oil producers to
ensure that last week’s Opec
accord on lower output suc¬
ceeds in ending the present
world glut

Though the call from Opec’s
secretary-general Dr Subroto
of Indonesia, is certain to foil
on deaf ears in Britain, gov¬
ernment sources in Oslo said
Norway, Western Europe's

By Colin Narbrough

second biggest producer after
Britain, was likely to bade
Opec next year.

Dr Subroto, speaking at the
Royal Institute _ of Inter¬
national Affair s in London,
said Opec was confident of
achieving its $l8-a-barrel tar¬
get price.

But that objective would
not be achieved overnight, be
said.

Brent crude was yesterday
trading at about $14 a barred.

“We are under no illusion that
Opec can effectively cope with
the current situation without
the full support of the major
producers and consumers,”
Dr Subroto said.

The Opec secretarygeneral
argued that non-Opec produc¬
ers were also to blame for the
present surplus of oil on the
market and the low price level
adding that non-Opec produc¬
ers had been pumping oil as
much as they could.

Nought
for their
comfort

THE TIMES CITY DIARY

Downes
and out

Although the details of the
redundancy packages to be
offered to Morgan Grenfell’s
departing employees have yet
to be unveiled, those who
joined within the past 18
months — the majority of
those market-makers being
axed — are, I hear, likely to
receive almost nothing. If the
£10 million the firm estimates
the redundancies will cost
were shared out evenly it
would amount to £22.000 per
man, but the bulk of that sum
will be handed out to the
longer-serving ex-Pinch in
Denny staff instead. And any
hopes that the latecomers will
at least get their bonuses for
the current year — which can
amount to more than 100 per
cent of salary — are also likely
to be dashed. Traditionally,
Morgan Grenfell declared its
bonus payments in October of
each year, paying them with
December pay packets. But
this year it altered the proce¬
dure! saying the bonuses
would be declared after the
December year-end and paid
in March. “That’s obviously
why they announced the
redundancies when they did,
so that they don't have to pay
any bonuses,” concluded one
wise old City hand. But the
employees have, nevertheless,
had the last laugh. They
drowned their sorrows in
champagne yesterday, happy
in the knowledge that their
erstwhile employer would be
footing the bilL For in its
haste. Morgan Grenfell had
forgotten to reclaim its cor¬
porate credit cards.

Another of the City's old
guard is quitting the Square
Mile. Complaining that 80 per
cent of his friends have al-

-a • -a -a i ■ _1 _ cent or his tnenas nave at-

Black Bob s black mark

Even though it is nigh-impos¬
sible to be in three places at
•once, Sr Robert Scholey, foe
British Steel c h ai rm an, has
not been excused a fine for
non-attendance at a meeting of
fellow steel-makers hi Shef¬
field. While “Black Bob” was
in foe City early on Monday
for the stock market debut of
British Steel shares, and then

at the Savoy Hotel for lurch to
be declared Businessman of
foe Year, be was, I am told,

also doe at a special meeting of

foe 350-year-old Cotiers Com¬
pany, to install Alan Jowitt,
foe new Master Cutler. As one
of foe Company’s “assis¬
tants”. Scholey, aged 67, was
fined I5p for foOug to answer
his I—™ during two roll calls.

Till toll

glare at him daily are not
nearly as much fun as the old
trading Door, Paul Downes,
aged 49, tells me that he will
be leaving BZW in March next
year. His 31 years with the
firm are, he says, “long
enough”- A partner with
Wedd Duriacher since 1971
and these days a director of
KZW Gilts, he plans to sell his
home in Barnes, London, and
move permanently to the
timbered country house he

Overworked City slickers, fed

up with arriving home to find
the cupboard bare and yet toq
busy to do their own grocery
shopping, may find the answer
to their dilemma in a new firm

being set up in Hampstead. . ..

The Trolleymaster, which has- flight in Wfltshrrelast year’
been formed by an ex-Saatcm City has changed enor-

& Saatchi employee and a
former plumber, will scour the
supermarket shelves on your
behalf But such a service
comes at a price — the
Trolleymaster charges com-

mously and it's no longer my
scene,” he says. “I made up
my mind when I was on
holiday in Spain with my wife
six weeks ago, then Z discussed
it with the firm and they

missions of £7 on orders of » 0 before the

Taco thin ft nn nrHprt lin . . c .i-_ xr__« T_T_

less than £30, £8 on orders up
to £40 and 20 per cent of
orders worth more than £50.

Dear Ron

“Q: What do Santa Claus
and a Morgan Grenfell
employee have in common?”
“A: TheyVe both given foe
sack before Christmas”

When Ronald Reagan leaves
the White House on January
20, he will not have to look for
for a lucrative part-time job.
Big corporations are already
said to be queuing up to get
him to speak azfoeirzneetings.
And although the President's
staff has been careful not to
accept any job offers for him
while he is stiS in office, when
that restraint is removed, he
will definitely not come cheap.
It has been estimated that he
will be able to charge at least
£75,000 for each such
appea ran ce.

end of the fiscal year.” He
admits that be may grow
bored after six months and
look for something new. “But
it won’t be in the City."
Initially he will be preoccu¬
pied with the refurbishment of
his new abode. “I was at¬
tracted to the ambiance of the
place at once — the timbers
came from an old pnb,” be
jests.

• What is the difference be¬
tween a stockbroker and a
fund manager? The stock¬
broker is more of a gentleman.
He does not say “Get tost” -
or more vulgar words to that
effect — until the telephone

receiver has been replaced.

Carol Leonard

•****-“^ - ■ r ~ ■

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US deal
lifts VPI
to £14m

By Martin Waller
A full year's contribution from
the Carter Organization in the
US boosted pre-tax profits at
VPI Group, the advertising
consultancy better known by
its former name of Valin
Pollen, from £4.14 million to
£14.09 million in the year to
end-September.

Operating income bounded
by 112 per cent to £33.02
million. The sharper pre-tax
growth represented higher
margins at Carter—more than
double the 25 percent targeted
for the original British busi¬
nesses, said Mr Reg Valin, the
chairman.

Carter’s exact contribution
was impossible to split out,
but it had met the S19 million
(£10.1 million) profit target set
when the company was
bought last year. The US now
probably accounted for about
75 per cent of the group’s
earnings. ’

A final dividend of 2.5p
raises the total to 3.5ft up
from a restated 1.125p_ Mr
Don Carter, the former owner
of the US company, has been
matte chairman of VPI*s US
holding company.

COMMENT

Sprightly GEC hits a
new Plessey problem

T

i he battle for Plessey is hotting up.
First Lord Weinstock's General
Electric Company produces what
for GEC, with its lacklustre tradisg
record, are glistening interim results —
turnover up 15 per cent, pre-tax up 10
per cent and dividend up more than
expected at a come-hither 19 per cent.

Then it transpires that Plessey’s legal
advisers, have written to the Office of
Fair Trading, launching what seems to
be a well-timed torpedo towards foe
Anglo-German task force of GEC-
Siemens. In essence, Plessey is saying
that GEC, by bidding, is damaging
Plessey’s competitiveness, to the advan¬
tage of GEC. This is because a whole
array of efforts by Plessey, including a
number of acquisitions and cross¬
holding deals, have had to go on the
back burner, two-thirds of them to the
direct advantage of GEC as a compet¬
itor to Plessey and the rest indirectly
advantageous to GEC because of the
weakening effect on Plessey.

Plessey must certainly be finding it
difficult to recruit a new finance director
as successor to Stephen Walls, now
managing director and in charge of the
Plessey “defence committee”.

Plessey is saying to the OFT that the
anti-competitive effects of the bid were
clearly foreseeable, and should be
looked at in the light of undertakings
given by GEC to the Government at the
time of the 1986 investigation by foe
Monopolies Commission which sank

GECs previous attempted takeover of
Plessey. GEC undertook not to take
more than a 15 per cent stake in Plessey.

So this could be foe first test of the
GEC-Siemens bid, with an offer docu¬
ment due to come out by December 13
at foe latest. Unless GEC can persuade
Sir Gordon Bonie, foe director genera!
of Fair Trading, and Lord Young of
Grafiham, the Trade and Industry
Secretary, that foe undertakings should
be lifted, the bid will be stillborn.

Dearly GEC will argue that the new
bid is not just a repeat of the lasl
because it is a joint one with Siemens.
Plessey is predictably scornful of foal
talking of parrot cries of 1992. But foe J
prospect of foe single market has
brought altered perceptions of steps
needed to sharpen industry's compet¬
itive edge. Even so, what GEC and
Siemens must do is to spell out much
more clearly what can be expected of
this Anglo-German relationship.

Meanwhile, GEC is proving how a
takeover bid can not only enliven the
attacked but also the attacker. GECs
long record as an under-performer
against foe market has been showing
signs of change, but the interims are
still decidedly better than expected.
They should confirm City expecta¬
tions that foe full year at GEC should
bring about £755 million pre-tax as
GEC steadily accelerates to out¬
perform the market on earnings per
share.

Q

*1.3 n

Something of a pickle

uite how foe stand-off between
Lonrho’s Tiny Rowland and
Australian corporate beachbali
Ala? Bond originally arose is likely to
remain a mystery. Whatever mutual
misunderstanding did set Mr Bond off
on his uphill trail to stalk the inter¬
national trading group, it threatens to
put both sides in something of a pickle.

Lonrho has concentrated on high¬
lighting the all-too-evident holes in foe
Bond group finances. The strategy is
simple enough. To mount a bid, Mr
Bond would need to raise the consid¬
erable wind from banks, since anything
but cash would be laughed at Even his
existing 21 percent is mostly in hock. If
Lonrho can raise questions among the
banks faster than Mr Bond can answer
them, the dreaded Bond bid will never
materialize. According to Lonrho, its
unflattering study of the Bond group has
been in much demand from banks, who
have accounted for most of foe thou¬
sand or more copies distributed.

At the same time, Mr Rowland,
perhaps coincidentally, has given some
credibility to foe fancy prices he put on
the break-up value of Lonrho through
his timely safe of his whisky and French
wine businesses to Brent Walker. If Mr
Bond somehow still managed to raise
finance for a bid, it would surely be on

terms that required him to carve up
Lonrho's assets extremely rapidly.

In that case, they might well not fetch
the prices that Mr Rowland and his
team could negotiate for selected assets
at their leisure. So foe bid might not
look that attractive to loyal
shareholders.

Lonrho's awkward questions will
surely be tricky for Mr Bond either way.
Ifhe has to slink away, however, Lonrho
will face new problems. At 371p, its
shares are standing at about 16 times
historic earnings — way above the low
rating they have endured through the
years of periodic controversy and out of
line with other leading conglomerates or
overseas traders. They are valued as
much on assets (effectively break-up
value) as on near-term profit potential.

The team now preparing to present
Lonrho in a new light to institutions will
not have an easy job. If Mr Bond's stake
were not merely to pass to a more
credible bidder, Lonrho and its new
advisers will have to offer an attractive
package of earnings growth and asset
sales to create alternative value. The
institutions will not be convinced unless
they believe that managemem, includ¬
ing the still-redoubtable Mr Rowland, is
fully committed to the job, not devoting
energy to its feud with the Fayeds.

Paterson Zochonis

1988

SUMMARY OF RESULTS

Year ended 31st May

1988

1987

Turnover

£1903m

£207.9m

Profit before tax

m2 m

£333m

Profit after tax

£14.9m

£21.1m

Earnings per share

2939p

42.74p

Total dividends per share

7J8&p

7.10p

Pre-tax profits were broadly in Knewith

expectations previously indicated.

Tlie group’s fir»a««a1 investments came
through fast yeai^stxxkmazket crash relatively
well and die balance sheer has farther
strengthened.

Total dividends were increased by ■
approximately 10%.

West Africa

Depressed trading and economic conditions
forot^iotft West Afrira were foe msqor
influence oa both turnover and profits.
Nevertheless, in Nigeria, thegroup
main earned its share of foe total market
In foe French speaking countries trading
conditions were extremely depressed and
losses were incurred. Activities have been
rationalised and a material improvement is
anticipated for the current yean

Cussons

TheCussons group continued to make
satisfactor y progress in die United Kingdom and
Australia, where a new detergent factoiy was
brougbt into operation towards the end of the
year.

Far East o perations are being expanded and now
include Indonesia as weO as Singapore, Thailand
and Hoag Kong.

Current Year

Cnmons continues m make progress in all its
principal operations but a recent fall of 14 per

cent in foe value of foe Ni g e ri a n c mr ency
will be taken iffloaccount in foe half year

results tn30fo November 1988. These are
Kkcly to be somewhat lower than those of
foe previous half-year.

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BUSINESS AND FINANCE

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY DECEMB ER 7 198£

Extra staff
for inquiry
into DTI
and Clowes

By Sheila Gunn
Political Staff

Sir Anthony Barrowclough,
QC, the Ombudsman, has
taken on extra staff to speed
up his investigations into the
Department of Trade and
Industry's role in the Barlow
Clowes affair.

• They will help the special
unit set up to discover whe¬
ther the DTI was guilty of
maladministration in its deal¬
ings with the investment firm
which collapsed owing £190
million. The Ombudsman has
already warned MPs that it
will take months before he can
conclude whether the 18,000
investors should be com¬
pensated by the Government.

. Mr Alf Morris, Labour MP
for Manchester Wythenshawe,
has said he is worried that
Ministers are still refusing to
promise to honour the recom¬
mendations of the Ombuds¬
man if they are found to be at
fault.

. The Ombudsman agreed to
launch his investigation after
Sir Godfrey Le Quesne's in¬
quiry into the DTTs handling
of the affair.

LHW founders break links
but licence still uncertain

By Colin Narbrongh

Full authorization may still
elude LHW Futures, in spite
of news that Mr John Hughes
and Mr Jeremy Walsh, the
youthful co-foundere of the
commodity and financial fu¬
tures broker, have severed all
links with the firm.

The Association of Futures
Brokers and Dealers, the self-
regulatory organization for the
sector, yesterday declined to
comment on the case, but it is
understood not to share
LHWs view that the twin
departure of the founders last
month has removed the last
obstacle to authorization.

Having refused authoriza¬
tion to 33 firms, including
LHW, the AFBD is deter¬
mined to look beyond the
question of who owns ap¬
plicant firms and wishes to
scrutinize closely all directors.

In spite of the radical over¬
haul of LHW, now under the
control of Burgon Hall, and
the departure of its two most
prominent figures, the AFBD
is believed to be concerned
that some executives from the
old LHW remain.

Mr Hughes and Mr Walsh,

Severed connections with Burgoo: Walsh (left), and Hughes

both still in their:
their directorships of LHW in
1986 after the AFBD rejected
the firm's application for
authorization. Between them,
the two men earned dividends
of £19 million from LHW
over a two-year period.

In spite of resigning from
the beard and all executive
functions, they retained con¬
trol of 85 per cent of LHW*s
previous holding company,
Armstrong Capital Holdings.

Even after October's man¬
agement shake-up and capital

restructuring undertaken by
Mr Clive Thornton, the for¬
mer Abbey National manag¬
ing director appointed to
establish a good reputation for
LHW and gain authorization,
Mr Hughes and Mr Walsh
were still left with about 25 per
cent of Burgon HalL

By mid-November, how¬
ever, the two bad been per¬
suaded to dispose of all their
shares in the company.

A company spokesman said
they had “completely and
finally disposed of any in¬

terests in Burgon HalL*' He
could give no details of the
disposals, but said the vendors
would “personally not enjoy
very great benefit” from the
sales.

No conditions were at¬
tached to the divestment, nor
was there any suggestion of ill-
feeling or posable legal action,
the spokesman said.

The spokesman said Mr
Thornton had now achieved
what he set out to do at LHW,
except for one thing.
Authorization was, however, a
matter for the AFBD, which
had been kept fully informed
about developments, he said.

But authorization can by no
means be taken for granted.
The AFBD’s council, which
adjourned a decision on
LHW*s last application on
November 3, is keen to see an
end to the high-pressure tele¬
phone Saks techniques and
huge commissions for which
LHW was criticized.

The AFBD is expected to
review the LHW application
again shortly, but it is unsure
whether a derision can be
made before Christmas. The
company currently operates
under interim authorization.

Share plan boosts
Eldridge, Pope

By Our City Staff

Shares in Eldridge, Pope, the
Dorset brewer, leaped 40p to
620p due to a share split and
scrip issue plan and the revela¬
tion of an extraordinary profit
of £1.26 million reflecting a
£38.95 million surplus on
property revaluation in the
company’s annual results.

• Pre-tax profits, however,
rose only marginally, from
£3.4 million to £3.5 milli on in
the year to eud-September, on
turnover up from £31.38 mil¬
lion to £ 35.22 million.

. Mr Christopher Pope, chair¬
man and chief executive, said
the extraordinary credit was
accounted for below the line
because of its unpredictable
nature and the distorting ef¬
fect it would have if stated
above the line as part of pre¬
tax profits.

Most of the increase in pre¬
tax profits was due to a
strongly improved perfor¬
mance in the 105 public
houses, which saw operating

Pope: plans please market

profit grow at about 40 per
cenL However, Mr Pope
warned of some earnings dilu¬
tion as a result of the rising
level of interest rates.

The company plans to split
the £1 shares into 5Op units
plus a scrip issue of one 50p
share for four new 50p shares.

Earnings per share are 29.7p
(27.0p). The final dividend is
5p a share, making 9p, up by
1.25p from last year.

NatWest
in French
expansion

By Richard Thomson
Banking Correspondent

National Westminster Bank
has bought control of a French
stockbroking firm, SeOier, as
part of expansion of its Euro¬
pean equities, investment and
commercial banking oper¬
ations.

The stockbroking operation
will be run alongside NatWest
Bank SA, the group's Paris-
based bank, and will form part
of NatWest Investment Bank
(NWTB).

The value of the purchase
was not disclosed although
NatWest said that it was
insignificant in terms of the
group's balance sheeL
Sellier has seats on the Paris
and Lyons stock exchanges
and has 150 employees, its
main business is institutional
broking in French equities,
although it has an increasing
business in fixed-income in¬
struments and derivative
financial products.

Cronite climbs
78% to f 1.87m

By Our City Staff

Cronite Group, the processor
of nickel alloys and steel
stockholder, reports a 78 per
cent jump in pre-tax profits to
£1.87 million for the year to
September 30. Turnover more
than doubled — from £17.79
million to £39.26 million —
because of the escalating
nickel price and a number of
recent acquisitions. Fully-di¬
luted earnings per share rose
from 6.7p to 9.7p. The final
dividend is 2.5p, makmg 3.Sp
— the first dividend since
1982.

The results were ma rginall y
above market expectations as
the shares rose 3p to 72p on
the news. However, two com¬
panies gave cause for some
concern.

Dr Jim Butler, the chair¬
man, said that Atlantic
Cronite, a stockist of semi-
fabricated aluminium and
stainless steel products, which
was acquired in February for
£444,040, was “something of a

disappointment” Dr Butler
took over as chairman in May
following the retirement of Mr
Tom Honess.

The problems at Cronite
Advanced Castings (formerly
Dowty Precision CastingsX a
designer and developer of
high-integrity castings, which
was acquired in July last year,
were more serious. The
subsidiary suffered from the
loss of substantial defence
contracts, which was exacer¬
bated by problems in produc¬
tion and technical control.
Management changes were
made but the situation re¬
mains under close review.

Gearing, once above 1,000
per cent, has been held below
50 per cent, although the
group has expressed some
concern about the current
level of interest rates and
exchange rates. During the
year, the amount of interest'
payable increased from
£315,000 to £503,000.

LBMS

interim

profits

slump

By Wolfgang Mtmchan

Shares in Leannomh &
Burchett Management Sys¬
tems. the specialist computer
consultancy, training and soft¬
ware company, dropped 30p
to 152p following the ann¬
ouncement of a slump in pre¬
tax profits from £684,000 to
£373,000 for the six months to
October 31.

LBMS, which is quoted on
the Unlisted Securities Market
and is best known for its
software, used mainly by pro¬
grammers and systems an¬
alysts, blamed a rise in
development costs and prob¬
lems with Cullinet, its main
US distributor, for the set¬
back, which had arisen despite
an increase m turnover Grom
£4.77 million to £5.49 million.

In the US, royalty payments
received from Cullinet fell
from £350,000 to £35,000,
following a premature ann¬
ouncement by Cullinet of a
new software product, as a
result of which sales of the
existing range of products
slowed down considerably.

This, however, occurred
long before the replacement
product was introduced in
October. The company
claims, however, that sales of
the replacement product have
been satisfactory.

Development costs have
risen from £550.000 to
£852,000, and are likely to
accelerate in the second half to
an estimated £2 million. Mr
Rainer Burchett, the chairman
of LBMS. said the increase in
development expenditure was
“a positive decision”, aimed
at guaranteeing an early re¬
lease of a new version of
Automate, the company's
main product.

But the company said that
the return on this investment
is unlikely to come through
before the year ended October
1990. Mr Burchett added that
it was difficult at this stage to
produce a year-end profit
forecast

Despite the current prob¬
lems, the company claims to
have a positive cash balance.

Profits before development
costs and interest declined
from £1.22 million to £1.19
million, and earnings per
share fell from 3.7p to 2.0p.
The interim dividend is 0.6p
(0.5p) per share.

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-Unctartying aacurtty prtca.

TRADITIONAL OPTIONS

First DuOngs UMDuafinn Last Dactantion ForSwttoawm

Docombnrb DucumburfS March 9 Match 20

CaBopttons tarn takm out ok 8^/88 BTH Wfc, PML C Baynes. Norfolk Capital,
LEP. Eagle Trust RnK UHsure, Martey. NS, Control Socuttes. Jwdeson Consultancy,
British StOflf, Bumdena, RagaBan, Rosohaogh. Otirar Resources.

Put C Baynes. Put & Cidfc Britreh SweA.

With an annual turnover exceeding £500m,
Gardner Merchant is Europe’s largest contract
catering company and a world leader in its field.

Of the UK’s top 100 companies, 84 are already
clients of ours. And we’re currently talking with a
further twelve.

\Xe employ over 34,000 staff. All people who
understand the true meaning of the word 'service’.

Gardner Merchant invest more money in
training, management development, information
technology and other key support services than ail
our competitors put together.

This is the commitment to the industry that has
made us undisputed market leader.

Providing you with true value and real quality.

So take this opportunity to contact us — Lhe
professionals. We will provide you with the
standard of catering excellence that has made
Gardner Merchant the choice of over 4000
organisations worldwide.

Put our 300 years of experience to the test
today.

GARDNER MERCHANT

1886-1988

For further Information please contact Peier Howell
GARDNER MERCHANT, FREEPOST 100. MANCHESTER M60 9AU. Or FREEFONE 5525

Bardon Hill, Leicestershire. Home of some
of the largest reserves of premium hardstone
in England.

On this rock solid foundation Bardon has
built its business. From the supply of aggre¬
gates for motorways, roads and runways, to
building products for homes and gardens.

This week our success story continues
with ourhalf-yearresults to 30 September
1988:

• Profit before tax is up 146% from &3.4m to
£8.4m, with a first-time contribution from
our US subsidiary, Bardon Trimount.

• Recent strategic moves to refocus the
Group on its core activities include the
disposal of our hire interests and acquisi¬
tion of a specialist stone supplier.

• We look forward to a successful year -
. though the final results will, as ever, be
affected by winter weather, both here and
in the US.

(EXTRACTED FROM STATEMENT BY PETER W.G. TOM.
CHAIRMAN & CHiEFEXECimVEf

Interim results
in brief

6monthsto30SepL

Utraudivd Unaudited

Year to

31 March

AluUtrd

1988

1987

1988

(STOO)

(S'000)

(S‘000)

Turnover

87,128

43,254

95,987

Pre-tax profit

8,406

3,418

7,294

Earnings per share

6.97p

3.37p

Dividend per share

0.82p

0.63p

2.50p

If you would like acopy of the interim
report please contact Ken Cure, Company
Secretary, Bardon Hill, Leicester LE6 2TL. TeL
0530-510088.

Past performance is nnlnere&farily an indication of
future performance- The contents nfth is
which Uiedirectors of Bardon GmupPLCarr ftnieiy
responsible, have been approved, for the purpose nf
Section 57 of the Financial Sendees Act 1986bynn
authorised person.

A foundation for the future.

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY DECF.MBFR 7 1 Qgg

NEW YORK

Dow continues to
gain in strength

sssr-Ss*

tenday, adding to‘ht^rns of had supplied false iufofma-
Monday. Traders said that uon in seeking rate increases,
profit-taking may appear at The Dow average closed

asy*- -

ra *)!; .. „ . .. • FnwkJFnrt - The 30-share

Mr Jim Scatuorchio, a DAX index closed at I n 87 94
trader at Donaldson Lufkin -5.71
Jenreite, said that after recent up. Last-rain me profit-taking
gams, institutions may wait whittled awav some mini
for a. slight decline before •Singapo^- Tte sS
investing more funds. The Time?, industrial index rose
Dow Jones industrial average 298 to close at 996.14. Prices
rose 6 points to 2,129.76. dosed higher over a broad
Long Island Lighting led the front in moderate trading
list of active shares. Ming % brokers said.

BUSINESS AND FINANCE /LAW

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TOKYO

Strong US
gains help
Nikkei to
reach peak

(Renter)—Prices ended firmer
yesterday with the main index
at a record close following
Wall Street’s overnight rise,
but off their early traded peaks
because of profit-taking, bro¬
kers said.

Mr Kenzo Doi, the head of
investment information at
Kokusai Securities, said: “The
index could reach 30,000 by
the end of this week, after
pausing slightly along the way.
We could see some profit¬
taking after it hits 30,000, but
sentiment is bullish for
December and January.**

The Nikkei index rose 54,70
points, or 0.18 per cent, to a
record 29,669.38 after a traded
high of 29,767.63. The pre¬
vious record close of
29,665.50 was set on Saturday
as was the previous traded
high of 29,666.47.

Prices were buoyed by
strong gains on Wall Street
overnight, brokers said. A
trader at Yamaichi Securities
said; “it is firm, steady trade.
There have been no new
developments regarding the
emperor. The market is just
sort of ignoring him and
buying on tbe dip.”

The Nikkei closed 50.82
points lower on Monday after
Emperor Hirohito’s condition
suddenly deteriorated.

Buying was broad-based.
Turnover was a modest 1.1
billion shares againt 650
million.

The list of rises was headed
by non-life insurance, com¬
munications, airline, pre¬
cision instrument, bank, oil.
electrical, credit/lease, retail,
and some manufacturing
issues.

• Hong Kong — The Hang
Seng index dosed 5.38 points
higher at 2,676.59 and the
Hong Kong index rose 3.32 to
1,765.05. Turnover was
HKS953.99 million (£65.44
million), down from HKS1.23
billion on Monday. Buyers
battled sellers but the market
stopped short of HK$ 1 billion
in turnover and left the stock
indices little changed, brokers
said.

• Sydney — By the close of
floor trading, the All-Ord¬
inaries index had risen 11.2
points to 1,458.6. The All-
Industrials rose 18.5 to
2,344.6, the All-Resources 5.8
to 728.9 and the gold index
18.7 to 1,514.3.

( STOCK MARKET )

Ultramar rises on bid hopes

Alarm bells were ringing last
night in the boardroom of
Uhramar, die leading British
independent oil company —
and perennial takeover
favourite — as it emerged that
Noverco Inc, Unigesco Inc
and Banque Paribas, acting
together, have acquired 14.8
million shares, or a 4.3 per
cent stake, in the company.

This news had speculators
immediately chasing the
shares higher on revived bid
hopes, and by the close they
stood 14p up at 258p follow¬
ing a turnover of almost S
million shares.

As dealers heard that
Noverco, a foreign oil trading
company and Unigesco. also a
foreign company which is in
the food sector, were acting on
behalf of Nova of Alberta — a

Chase Manhattan
Securities, the broker, is a fan
of National
Telecommunications,
unchanged at I35p. It says
the company has an ambitions
management team and is
transacting business in an
area with great potential,

NT is now well placed to grow
rapidly. _

group which apparently could
swallow Ultramar with no
trouble at all — they began to
think that the long-awaited
bid is about to materialize.

A couple of weeks ago,
U1 tram art shares touched
270p amid intense speculation
that a near-15 percent holding

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was being accumulated and
that a bid could be on the way

from either Atlantic Richfield

or Consolidated Gold Fields.

Further spice is always
added to the Ultramar situa¬
tion by the feet that Sir Ron
Brierley, tbe New Zealand
entrepreneur, holds a 14.11
per cent stake in Ultramar. He
is believed to be a willing seller
at the right price (nearer £3 a
share), while a further 2 per
cent stake is thought to be held
by Premier Consolidated.

Last month, Ultramar re¬
ported that third-quarter pre¬
tax profits had dipped to £6.3
million, compared with £9
million for the same period of
1987. In September it an¬
nounced a £130 million rights
issue to finance the $440
million (£236 million) ac¬
quisition of a Californian
refinery.

Last night, dealers believed

that the new players almost
certainly signalled that

m tram art days of indepen¬
dence are numbered.

EJsewbere, the equity mar¬
ket shrugged off the news of
Morgan Grenfell's withdrawal
from (be securities industry
and the resulting 450
redundancies.

Helped by a string of
favourable company trading
statements and another good
showing on Wall Street, share
prices edged forward in thin
trading. The FT-SE 100-share
index closed 5.8 points up ai
1,767.4, after initially showing
a fell of 1.9 points on the
Morgan Grenfell

announcement.

The narrower FT 30-share
index finished 5.8 points up at
1,444.8.

Gilts, helped by overseas
support, moved up a further
£%.

After Monday's debut and
the hectic trading of 261
million shares, dealings in the
newly-privatized British Steel
were a lot more subdued and
the close was Ip easier at 61p
on a turnover of 61 million
shares.

BdstFom. which makes sus¬
pension seats for commercial
vehicles, staged an impressive
debut on the main markeL

Placed at 135p each by
Robert Fleming, the securities
house, the shares opened at
141 p and improved steadily to
dose at 146p, a premium of
HP-

Northero Engineering In¬
dustries, the Newcastle power
station equipment and general
engineering company, re¬
turned to prominence with the
shares jumping 6p to 129.5p,

Expect further expansion
moves by Chancery after
yesterday's £500,000
acquisition of Mark Kaye
Financial, a loan and
leasing finance group. Mr
Harvey Cohen, the
chairman, is believed to be
ready to reveal a similar-
sized deal. The shares closed
3pdownat2I3p. _

amid speculation that Rolls-
Royce has agreed on a merger
which will value NEI at
between 14Qp and 150p a
share, or about £350 million.

Dealers have been expecting
Rolls-Royce to bid for NEI
ever since it revealed it had
bought a 4.7 per cent stake in

the company at the end of
October. The news then
brought about a swift jump in
NEI's share price to a peak of
I36p, but recently the shares
have drifted because of the
absence of any developments.

Meetings have taken place
between Sir Francis Tombs.
Rolls' chairman, and Mr
Terry Harrison, his opposite
number at NEI. during the
past few weeks and it is
believed a deal has now been
worked out.

Analysts feel that Sir Fran¬
cis is keen to create a new
company, designed io win a
large share of the orders
expected for power station
equipment after the privatiza¬
tion of the electricity industry.
Additionally, he warns to put
Rolls-Royce in a more favou¬
rable position compared with
its larger US rivals in the gas-
turbine industry — General
Electric and Pratt & Whitney,
which are both far more
diversified.

Morgan Grenfell jumped
lip to 3I0p following the
news of the merchant bank's
withdrawal from the securities
industry. Dealers feel that now
Morgan's market-making op¬
eration has been closed, the
group is even more vulnerable
to a bid.

One dealer said; “Orig¬
inally, a bidder for Morgan
Grenfell was probably de¬
terred by the loss-making
securities division of the

group.

. Geoffrey Foster

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British firms ‘could be led
astray by DTI’ over 1992

By Roland Rudd, Employment Affairs Reporter

The Government's 1992 pub¬
licity campaign has been
criticized by a leading indus¬
trialist as a “re-run of the
European Football Cup” in
encouraging British com¬
panies to. compete with their
Community partners.

Mr Garry Hawkes, manag¬
ing director of Gardner Mer¬
chant. says that British
companies are in danger of
being led astray by the Depart¬
ment of Trade and Industry.

Writing in the latest issue of
First, a forum for political and
industry leaders, Mr Hawkes,
says: “1992 should not be a
commercial re-run of the

European Football Cup, with
the UK engaging in an ad¬
versarial contest with the part¬
ners in the European Commu¬
nity.

“Instead it should be seen as
a co-operative venture with
the emphasis on opening up
UK business to a process of
cross-fertliization designed to
raise standards in all areas of
national life and to effect the
best practices in the Commu¬
nity.”

The danger of creating an
insular “Fortress Europe” in
1992 is raised by Mr Stanislas
Yassukovich, chairman of
Merrill Lynch Europe and

deputy chairman of the Stock
Exchange.

Mr Yassukovich. also writ¬
ing in First, says the use of
strict reciprocity tests to con¬
trol the participation of non-
European financial institu¬
tions in the new Community
could create a form of trade
war which would prevent a
truly open financial market¬
place.

• The TUCs Committee on
European Strategy is planning
a campaign to help unions
persuade companies to estab¬
lish joint bodies to prepare for
European harmonization.

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Regina v Hunting
Before Loid Lane, Lord Chief
Justice. Mr Justice McGowan
and Mr Justice Steyn
{Judgment December 6]

A freelance Press photographer
succeeded in an appeal against
conviction at Southwark Crown
Court (before Judge Paiba) of
contempt of court arisingout of
his conduct in attempting to
take photographs ofa defendant
who had left court

Simon Ruining, of Market
Place, Abridge, Essex, who had
been fined £500 and ordered to
pay £500 costs, was awarded his
costs out of central funds for tbe
hearing on appeal and at the
crown court.

Mr Gareth Williams, QC and
Mr Edward Southwell for the
appellant; Mr Neill Stewart as
amicus curiae.

The LORD CHIEF JUS¬
TICE, giving the judgment of
the court, said that, for reasons
which their Lotdships did not
know. The Sun newspaper and
other newspapers were in¬
terested in taking photographs
of Mr Charles Springs!! and Mr
Anthony Bowles who were
charged with living on immoral
earnings in a trial taking some
days.

On March 28 they left court
.and came down the steps in
order to make their ways home.
The appellant took some close-
up photographs of Mr Bowles
but Mr Springall put a folded

Guardian newspaper over his
head and face and, with his
surety as guide, made his way
quickly up Morgans Lane and
Tooley Street towards London
Bridge station.

The appellant ran after and
caught up with the two men. It
was not disputed that for the
next 90 seconds to two minutes
he persistently tried to photo¬
graph Mr Springall in spite of
his making it dear that he did
not wish bis photograph to be
taken.

A solicitor's clerk joined
them. The appellant dodged
about, around and between the
group and walked backwards'
holding his camera low in order
to penetrate the protection of
the newspaper.

Tbe incident ended when Mr
Springidl, unable to see where he
was going, bumped into some
scaffolding and, possibly also, a
lamp post. He then made a run
for it, managing to escape from
the appellant who followed for a
short distance.

So far as concerned tbe facts,
their Lordships could only say
“Yea” or “Nay” to the success
of the appeal on reading the
judge's findings of feet.

The law insisted that the
defendant, the witnesses and
others with duties to perform in
any case, civil or criminal, were
entitled to go to and from the
court, whether on foot or other¬
wise without being molested or
assaulted of threatened with
violence.

The reason for that was, first,
that there must be nothing to
create fear in the minds of such
persons so as to make them less,
likely to come to court to
perform their functions.

The second reason was more
difficult to put imo words. It
was that the authority and
dignity of the court required that
those attending it to take part in
a trial should be allowed to do so
without let or hindrance and
without fear of molestation

The principle derived from a
judgment ofLord Justice Bowen
inlnre Johnson ((1888)20 QBD
68,74).

As in all criminal cases, there
were two aspects to be consid¬
ered: the act; and the intent with
which it was performed.

So far as the act was con¬
cerned there was a dividing line
between trivial acts which no.
one could say were acts amount¬
ing to the necessary interference
and serious acts which might
amount to iu The dividing line
was not easy to draw.

Had the judge found that the
appellant had snatched the
paper away, or that he had
struck the “victim” in the groin
with the camera, or that he had
been physically josded, or that
be bad been pushed into a lamp
post or scaffolding poll, or was
threatened that he would be
followed day after day all the
way home, then quite clearly die
necessary foundation for finding

both the act and the intent were
present.

But those matters, as the
judge held, were not found to be
proved.

What was conceded was that,
given summary proceedings.
they were carried out with great
propriety. All necessary evi¬
dence was called, all necessary
representation was present and
the matters were properly ar¬
gued at length.

Consequently one was left
with behaviour which was
offensive, rude, uncivilized and
wholly reprehensible but which
fell short of acts which, on an
objective view, were not capable
of amounting to interference
sufficient to constitute the nec¬
essary acts.

Their Lotdships did not, in
those circumstances, have to
deal with the further interesting
submissions of Mr Gareth Wil¬
liams so far as intent was
concerned. The judge did not
direct his attention to the ques¬
tion of intent.

Where there was conduct
which did physically impede or
alarm, it might not be difficult
to draw the inference of intent.

The appeal was to be allowed
on the ground that there was
insufficient by way of proof of
the necessary acts set out in the
judgment to create a proper
foundation for the contempt
order which he made.

Solicitors: Daniel B. Taylor.
Wapping; Crown Prosecution
Service.

Costs of injunction granted on false evidence

BirvShanna

Before Mr Justice Vindort

[Judgment October 6]

Where a Mcuwa injunction to
prevent ihe dissipation of assets
was obtained on the basis of
fabricated evidence, the costs of
the application for the injunc¬
tion and the subsequent applica¬
tion for its discharge should be

paid by the plaintiff forthwith
on an’ indemnity basis even
where it could not as yet be
established whether or not the
plaintiff was personally im¬
plicated in the plot to fabricate
the evidence.

Mr Justice Vinelott so held m
the Chancery Division on an
application by Mr Om Parkcsh
Sharms to discharge lbe A/orara
injunction obtained car Mr
Dharam Biron May 5.1988,

Mr Stephen Rubin for Mr
Sharma; Mr Anthony Clover for
Mr Bir.

MR JUSTICE VINELOTT
said that Mr Bir and Mr Sharma
had formerly been partners and
the dispute was as. to the
ownership of partnership assets.

It was now established that
the Harem injunction had been
granted on the basis of for^d
evidence. 3 letter from a Mr Raj
Kumar Sharma, the branch
manager of the State Bank of
India's branch at Delhi airport.
That tetter indicated that Mr
Om Parkcsh Sharma, tbe defen¬
dant, intended to open an.
account with the po^pox ol
transferring substantial funds
from England.

It transpired that the defen¬
dant had no intention of open¬
ing such an account, was not, as
claimed, in India at the relevant
time and that the signature on.
the account mandate form
opening the account was a

forgery.

The defendant had incurred
considerable costs in going to
India with his legal adviser to
find out what had happened

Thai was the conduct of an
innocent man caught up in
deception.

The plaintiff argued that Mr
Rtti Kumar Sharma acted with¬
out his knowledge and consent
and as 1% was not personally
implicated in the scheme to
fabricate evidence he should not
be ordered to pay the defen¬
dant's costs but that the ques¬
tion of the costs of the Mareva

injunction should be left until
tnaL

His Lordship held that the
court was in feci misted by
fabricated evidence into grant¬
ing a Mareva injunction which.

apart from that evidence, would
not have been granted. The
evidence was clearly fabricated
in order to assist the plaintiff in
obtaining an injunction to
which he was not entitled.

The result was that the defen¬
dant had not only suffered the
disruption to his business affairs
which was the inevitable con¬
sequence of the granting of a
Mareva injunction, but had
been put to considerable ex¬
pense in order to uncover the
deception and establish the true
facts.

A Mareva injunction was an
exceptional remedy and if the
court was misled into granting

an injunction by fabricated evi¬
dence. the party who obtained
the injunction in reliance on
that evidence had to accept
responsibility for the costs and
damage that ensued, even if he
was able ultimately to show that
be was not a party to or even
aware of tbe deception which
was practised for motives of
friendship by someone who
wished to help him.

Therefore the only course his
Lordship could take in the
circumstances was to direct that
the plaintiff"pay the defendant's
costs of Ihe application for the
Mareva injunction, and the
application to discharge it. on an
indemnity basis, to be raxed and
paid forthwith.

Solicitors: Kenneth Shaw &
Co; Maurice Putsman & Co,
Birming h a m .

Applicant to answer new ground

Regina v Secretary of State for
the Home Department, Ex
parte Gaima

Where an affidavit, sworn on
behalf of the secretary of state m
proceedings for judicial review
of his decision to reject an
application for political asylum,
suggested for the first time that a
further basis on which that
decision was justified was that
her delay in applying for asylum
cast doubt on her credibility,
and the applicant had had no
opportunity of dealing with that

suggestion before the derision
had been made, the derision
should be quashed and the
applicant should be afforded
such an opportunity before a
final derision was made.

The Court of Appeal (Lord
Justice May, Lord Justice
Croom-Johnson and Lord Jus¬
tice GlidewdI) so held on
December 6, allowing an appeal
by Marion Gaima from Mr
Justice Macpberson who on July
22 had dismissed her applica¬
tion for judicial review of

derisions by tbe Secretary of
State for the Home Department,
refusing to rescind a deportation
Older made against her in 1981.

‘ LORD JUSTICE MAY said
that in refugee and asylum cases
the court should subject admin¬
istrative derisions to rigourous
examination. It was not for the
courts to say which factors had
weighed most heavily with the
derision taker, and the sugges¬
tion in the affidavit could not be
passed over as being akin to an
“obto* dictunt.

In re Offshore Ventilation Ltd
Rhodes and Another ▼ Allied
Dunbar Pension Services Ltd
and Others

Before Lord Justice O'Connor,
Lord Justice Nicholls and Lord
Justice Taylor
(Judgment November 9J
A notice served by a superior
landlord on an undertenant
under section 6 of the Law of
Distress Amendment Act 1908,
requiring the undertenant to pay
rent directly to tbe superior
landlord until the mesne land¬
lord’s arrears of rent were
thereby discharged, was eff¬
ective notwithstanding that the
mesne landlord had granted a
third party a charge by way of
legal mortgage over his lease¬
hold interest or had assigned the
lease to a third party.

The Court of Appeal so held
in a reserved judgment, allowing
an appeal by Allied Dunbar
Pension Services Lid and Mr
Terence Porter Sims, the trust¬
ees of the 08V Self-ad min¬
is! ered Pension Han, from Mr
Justice Hannan who had
ordered on June 19, 1987
01987] t WLR 1703) that,
notwithstanding the service by
them of notices under section 6
of the 1908 Act on the, several
underlessees of premises leased
by the trustees to Offshore
Ventilation Ltd, all moneys due
or becoming due from the
underlessees as rent under and
during the continuance of the
underleases fell to be paid to Mr
Geoffrey William Rhodes and
Mr lan David Holland as the
joint receivers and m a n agers of
the company, in priority to the
trustees as superior landlords
within the meaning of the 1908
Act.

Mr William Good hart, QC
for the trustees; Mr Christopher
Pymont for the joint receivers
and managers.

LORD JUSTICE

NICHOLLS said that the com¬
pany had granted a debenture to
its bankers to secure all money
from time to time owing. The
debenture granted the bank a
first fixed charge by way of legal
mortgage of the factory premises
leased to the company by tbe
trustees (of parts of which u had
granted underleases), and also a
fixed charge on the company's
debts and a floating charge on all
the company's undertaking,
property and assets not subject
to a fixed charge.

The bank bad subsequently
appointed the joint receivers
ana managers under a power in
the debenture, and they had
O Ktyd to pay rent to the
trustees.

The trustees, knowing of the
appointment of the receivers,
had served the section 6 notices
on the underlessees and the
receivers had thereupon levied
distress in respect of arrears of
rent owed by tbe underlessees
and applied to the court for
directions as to whether they
were entitled to retain the sums
received on distress or whether
the notices required them to pay
them to the trustees.

The receivers contended that
the notices were not .effectual
against the bank, since the

debenture had assigned to it the
rigfrt to receive rent from the
underlessees, the floating charge
having crystallized on tbe
appointment of the receivers,
and thai assignment took prior¬
ity over the statutory assign¬
ment effected by the notices by
reason of the rule in Dearie v
Hall ((1828) 3 Russ 1) because
the trustees had had notice of
the appointment of the receivers
and thus of the assignment to
the bank before they had issued
the notices.

The receivers had submitted
that since the Act made no
reference to assignees of rent
due from undertenants it could
not have been intended to strip
a legal or equitable assignee of
the benefit of such an assign¬
ment without compensation
even if he had given valuable
consideration for it: the Act
should be construed so as to
avoid such an injustice and as
not overriding the rights of
assignees who would have prior¬
ity under tbe rule in Dearie v
Halt

As legal mortgage of the
company's leasehold interest the
bank had been entitled to take
possession, which because of the
subsisting underleases would
lave taken the form of requiring
the underlessees to pay their
rent to the bank, and had
become the reversioner expec¬
tant on the underleases.

The bank had not taken
possession and so the company
as mortgagor had remained
entitled to receive and retain the
rents from the underlessees
without any liability to account
to the bank therefor either at law
or in equity.

The appointment of the
receivers had made no material
difference since the debenture
provided that they were deemed
to be agents of the company,

even though they had been

appointed by the bank. The
receivers’ entitlement to receive
rents was therefore as agen is for
the company, even though on
receipt they were obliged to deal
with the money in accordance
with the terms of the debenture.

Given tbe existence of the
charge by way of legal mortgage
there was no scope for the
operation in relation to the same
property of the fixed charge over
the company's debts or of the
floating charge. It was abun¬
dantly plain that the floating
charge was a residual provision
operating only in the absence of
a fixed charge.

The bank's rights in respect of
the receipt of rent from the
underlessees were governed by
the charge by way. of legal
mortgage, and those rights were
not enlarged or altered by the
other charges.

If the debenture were thus
construed the spectre of
successive assignments of the
same cbose in action vanished.
The receivers had been entitled
to receive the underlessees’ rent
as the mortgagor company's
agents until the service of tbe
notices; there was thus no
question of competing assign¬
ments or of someone other than
the company having become
entitled to receive the rents. On
that ground, which did not
appear to have been argued
before the judge, the appeal
should be allowed.

Thai result was neither
surprising nor unconscionable:
but for the debenture section 6
would plainly have been avail¬
able to the trustees on the
company's failure to pay rent,
and conversely if ihe bank had
gone into possession and failed
to pay rent the section would
equally have been available to
the trustees.

Section 6 was as much avail¬
able where tbe defaulting tenant

was an assignee of tbe lease as it
was where he was the original
lessee. An assignee of an
headlease took it subject to the
possibility that if the rent due to.
the superior landlord were not
paid the latter could garnish the
rent due from underlessees. in
the same way as he look subject
to the possibility that in the
event of defeuli in payment of
rent under the headlease the
superior landlord might forfeit
the headlease with the com
sequence that any
undertenancies would auto-!
matically be terminated.

Likewise, a person, including
a mortgagee, who took not an
assignment of the headlease but
a sub-term carved out of it
acquired an estate which from
its inception was subject to the
rights conferred on superior
landlords and undertenants by
the 1908 An.

If that were right and the
notices would have been effec¬
tual if no legal charge in favour
of the bank had been created,
and also if the notices would
equally have been effectual if the
bank bad gone into possession
under the charge, it would be
surprising to find that such
notices were ineffectual if a
receiver were appointed under
the charge. There would be no
rhyme or reason in that.

ft was not appropriate of
necessary to express any view on
whal the position would be
under the 1908 Act if there were
an assignment of a right to
receive rent from pm under¬
tenant unaccompanied by an
assignment of the reversion.
That point could be decided if
and when it arose.

Lord Justice Taylor and Lord
Justice O'Connor agreed.

Solicitors; Sharpe Pritchard
for A. R. Drummond & Co,
Epsom; Nabarro Natbanson,

Failure to act promptly is fatal
to judicial review application

Regina t Dairy Produce Quo¬
tas Tribunal. Ex parte Caswell
Whenever there was a failure to
act promptly or within three
months, as prescribed by Order
S3, rule 4(1) of the Rules of the
Supreme Court Lb ere was “un¬
due delay” within section 31(6)
of the Supreme Court Act 1981
and relief would not be granted
at the court’s discretion where it
would be detrimental to good
administration.

Mr Justice Popplewell so held
in the Queen's Bench Division
on November 25 when refusing
to grant the application of
Albert Raymond Caswell and
Eirtys Edwins Caswell to quash
the decision of the Dairy Pro¬
duce Quotas Tribunal for Eng¬
land and Wales of February 13.
1985 to reject their claim for s
wholesale milk quota, although
granting their application for a
declaration that that particular
decision was unlawful.

HIS LORDSHIP said that tbe
court, when dealing with undue
delay in judicial review cases,
was only concerned with a
temporal consideration. Had, as

here, more than three months
elapsed from the date when
grounds for the application first
arose?

Each individual judge in ev¬
ery individual case had a dis¬
cretion in undue delay cases and
that discretion was not to be
circumscribed. But in exercising
that discretion there were such
common factors as the length of
delay and whether there was any

excuse for all or part of that
delay.

The court could refuse to-
grant the relief sought if ft
considered it likely to be deu>
mental to good administration
which was a prerequisite of a
refusal as the effect of the refusal
not only upon the applicant but
upon any other person affected
by the relief sought was to be
taken into account.

Affidavits filed too late

Regina v Dairy Produce Quo¬
tas Tribunal, Ex parte Vevers
Strict adherence to time limits
for respondents lodging affida¬
vits in judicial review proceed¬
ings under Order 53, rule 6(4) of
the Rules of the Supreme Quin
was necessary.

Mr Justice Popplewell so hdkf
in the Queen's Bench Division
On November 25 when granting
an order by consent for certio¬
rari to quash a decision of the
Dairy Produce Quota Tribunal
for England and Wales on
January 28, 1985 to reject a

claim by Robert James Vevers
for a wholesale milk quota and
granting an order of mandamus.
requiring the tribunal to re¬
consider his daim.

HIS LORDSHIP said that the
Ministry of Agriculture had filed
their affidavits out of time, the-
requisite 21 days, as laid down
by Order 53. rule 6(4), and
therefore their evidence would
be excluded.

The time had now come when ■
stria adherence to the rule,
should be observed by respon-I
dems in judicial review i

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Daily Total

THE TIMES WEDNESDAY DEC

* 7 1988

BUSINESS AND FINANCE

29

Please take into account any
minus signs

Weekly Dividend

Please make a note of your daily totals
for die weekly dividend of £8,000 in
Saturday's newspaper.

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BRITISH FUNDS

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----j a stock is er-t&vidend.

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(VOLUMES: PAGE 27).

--PLUS——

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© Tines N*wspa*ea Liraltod

DAILY DIVIDEND £4,000

Claims required for 38 points

ACCUMULATOR £40,000

Claims better than 38 points
Claimants should ring 0254-53272

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MEDIA & MARKETING

Creative

insecurity

The definitions between design and

advertising people are becoming

blurred Deyan Sudjic finds the

evidence in the latest D&AD Annual

Santa with claws

Top: Stodio Dunbar for the HoUand
Festival; above, Clarks press ad by BMP

OPINION

Two worlds, divided by an
unbridgeable gulf of envy
mingled with contempt, tiptoe
toward the edge of mutual
incomprehension in the glossy
pages of the 1988 British
Design and An Direction An¬
nual. On one side are the
designers, distant descendants
of the pipe-smoking Festival
of Britain classes, who still
carry a lingering trace of the
sense of social responsibility
that is a product of a curiously
English tradition of progres¬
sive noblesse oblige. On the
other side are the advertising
men with cultural pretensions
who confusingly insist on
calling themselves art direc¬
tors. Art directors are natural
basketball-boot types, even
when they have shed their
letter sweaters and stubble for
Paul Smith suits. They inhabit
an industry characterized by
colossal self esteem.

The narcissism of the adver¬

tising industry
is tempered
only by in¬
security.
Hence its
addiction, to
grandiloquent
job descrip¬
tions, stupefy¬
ing salaries,
and tediously
drunken cere¬
monies in
which men in

Pentagrams designs featured m the animal
for, top, Reuters and, above, Kenwood

dinner jackets winner:DambartDntdi treat tbat

want to sound
like advertis¬
ing men —
hence all that
stuff about
“pitching”,
“positioning"
and “strategic
pfenning ” By

this defi¬
nition, design
could be
characterized
as anything

congratulate

each other on having achieved
greatness. But the nagging
doubt remains that perhaps a
career devoted to selling dog
food is nota fit life fora grown
man. A nagging doubt that
designers might have some¬
thing that the art directors
haven't

The trouble, of course, is
that designers are trying to rid
themselves of the herbivorous
image. They want to go
around giving each other short
fat yellow pencils, calling
themselves creative group
heads, and go for foil stock
market listings, too. They
want to wear pinstripes,
brogues and braces. They even

more product

This year’s D&AD Annual
reflects the nuances that
underlie this curiously fluc¬
tuating landscape. Until re¬
cently it has been dominated
by the advertising industry.
But the annual now includes
sections for product design
and interiors, alongside the
television commercials, the
pop videos and the Press ads.

Moreover, the president of
the Designers and Art Direc¬
tors Association is Gert
Dumbar, a Dutch graphic
designer and former professor
at the Royal College of Art.
Clearly the D&AD is making
major steps to increase its
credibility with the designers.

In fact, the product design
section of the annual this year
is a model for the rest of the
book. It is admirably concise
in describing exactly what is
bong shown, whether it is a
pencil sharpener by Ken
Grange or a solar powered
lantern. The judges have even
refrained from handing out a
yellow pencil award, to show
bow serious they are about

setting a hi gh standard

In other sections the
freshest work was in the
subversive graphic design of
Gert Dumbar, whose work for
the Holland Festival was both
memorable and original.

Unfortunately too much of
the interior design work sub¬
mitted seemed to have been
content with apeing what it sees
as the advertising way of
doing things, paradoxically, of
course, the advertising side
aspires more and more self¬
consciously to being “cre¬
ative". Another failure of
minds to meet

I f publishers' instincts are correct,
we are now a nation of cat-lovers.
Two years ago they went to the
dogs. Last December it was hum¬
our. But this Christmas the fur is
flying in the trade as cat books
fight to become impulse-buy stocking-
fillers.

There are more than 50 newly-
published feline titles, covering the
spectrum of humour, whimsy, histories,
photography, painting and how-to man¬
uals, as wll as another 30 back-list titles.
_ clawing for prime territory beside cash
‘ tills. But the latest pet theme is having to
struggle even harder to provide publish¬
ers’ profits.

According to Peter Haxiand, director
of Bookwaich, the organization which
monitors the best-selling end of publish¬
ing and bookselling, Christmas sales are
down 3 or 4 per cent on last year.

“And the book-buying public is prov¬
ing itself price-sensitive. Based on the
best-sellers which we trade, oar indices
show that cheaper books are selling
better.”

'Alio, 'Alio: The War Diaries of Rent
Artois, by John Haseldon (BBC, £5.95),
□ding on the back of the hit TV series,
has beat number one in The Bookseller
lists for three weeks. It is described by
one retailer as “a good package at a good
price".

Humour is an increasingly compet¬
itive market, with fewer titles making an
impact on best-seller lists than in
previous years. This has not stopped
publisher taking an expensive leap on to
the bandwagon in the hope of coming up
with the handful of runaway successes
which this category usually throws up.

Humour is a serious business. Penguin
is reported to have paid the comedian

Publishers want books
to be all-year gifts,
Alasdair Riley reports

Harry Enfield £100,000 for Wad And
Peeps (£3.99) without a word being
written, but it has yet to prove that it will
make loadsamoney.

‘Alio, ‘Allo's only problem is its
success. Demand has outstripped supply.
Booksellers are reluctant to risk over-
ordering and being left with post-
Christmas stocks which even a spate of
book tokens cannot shift Publishers are
reluctant to gamble on expensive re-print

‘We took a gamble
that we had
a blockbuster on
our hands’

runs, only to be left with over-stocked
warehouses.

The expensive exception among best¬
selling hardbacks is Chronicle of the
Twentieth Century (Longman/Cbron-
ide, £29.95), the nine-and-three-quarter
pound back-breaker which has sold well
over 100,000 units so for. It is currently
number one in the W.H. Smith best¬
seller list — which, unlike other lists, is
based on sales rather than bools shipped
into the shops.

David Crane, Longman’s sales mar¬
keting director, says: “We are confident

we have got the print-run juflright. We
sold out the first prini-nm of 90.000 on
publication in September — but had to
press the buton for the reprint of80,000
several weeks before that.

“We took a well-informed gamble that
we had a blockbuster on our hands
before we had sold even one book. It has
turned out to be this year’s Christinas
present for Dad. The entire run of
170,000 is worth £5 million retail There
will not be any copies of Chronicle of the
Twentieth Century left in our warehouse
by the end of this week, but there will be
sufficient in the diops to sell right up to
Christmas — just."

More than 50,000 new titles are
published in the UK every year. The
home trade is worth more than £1.000
million retail. And between a quarter
and one>-third of all book purchases are
in the run-up to December 25.

Now the trade is exploring ways of
persuading Christmas-only buyers to
spend money in bookshops at other
times. The Book Marketing Council is
launching a “books as gifts” campaign
based around calender events. First off is
a pilot promotion for Mother's Day 1989
to persuade sons and daughters to think
of books as wdl as flowers. It is being
launched through Pentos outlets
(Athena, Dillons, Hyman) and, depend¬
ing on results, participation throughout
the trade is planned for 1990.

The BMC has also commissioned the
biggest-ever survey into book buying and
reading habits in the UK. It has
appointed the British Marketing Re¬
search Bureau, which will conduct 5,400
interviews over the next three years on
issues such as price and availability, as
well as consumer perceptions about
books of all kinds.

Buying up the airwaves

The author is editor qfBlueprint
magazine.

• The D&AD 1988 Annual is
published an December 14 by
lmemos Books, price £52

If Television South (TVS)
stopped worrying about strip¬
ping I talian housewives, it
might be concerned about
rapacious t stm* is its audit.
OK, we are only talking about
two French companies which
happen to be by for its largest
shareholders. Generate
dlmages, with 12^4 per cent,
is the media arm of Com-
pagnie G&terak des Earn, one
of die French water utilities
busily buying up its British
counterparts. C*n*l Plus, the
successful pay-TV company,
has a further 12.44 per cent,
while rffenfs of Banque
Nationale de Paris also have a
small stake.

The extent of French

A new report throws fresh light on who
really controls British television

penetration of TVS is one of
the useful pieces of informa¬
tion in British Television: A
CoatroBers* Profile, published
by Fulcrum Publishing, lie
report lists tbe major cor¬
porate share stakes in all
British ITV franchise holders
and seeks to identify the
ultimate holding companies.

Fulcrum is run by two
journalists — Christopher
Hird, former Insight editor on
The Sunday Tunes, and Rich¬
ard Belfield, a former World
in Action producer. As well as

providing financial informa¬
tion, Fulcrum prodaces TV
programmes, including a new
gay and lesbian current affairs
series, to be shown on Channel
4 in the spring.

Of the British media com¬
panies, The Guardian obvi¬
ously has not given up mi TV
ambitions with its 5 per cent
stake in Anglia. WJL Smith
and Pearson Group have the
two largest holdings in York¬
shire TV.

The Mirror Group is a big
shareholder in Bonier, with 15

per cent, along with Cambrian
Newspapers (18-5 per cent).
Its sister company, Pergamon,
has 20 per cent of Central, in
which Carlton Commna-
ications and D.C. Thomson
have only slightly smaller
stakes.

Some of these holdings may
have to be divested when the
Government legislates on its
recent Broadcasting White
Paper. However — and tins is
the special value of this report
— the ultimate controllers of
our airwaves are not tbe media
moguls, but the bunks and
their associated fund manage¬
ment companies.

Andrew Lycett

SUB-EDITOR

HALSBURVS STATUTES
£ 10,463 - £ 13,032

The job principally consists of summansmo the effect of
new legislation, subordinate legislation and case law an
maanal included In Hatsbury's Statutes for pub Station in
the vqraus elements of the Service. In addition the
successful apficart may be required to prepare material
tar inclusion in the reissue volumes os Hatebuy’s
Statutes whKh will start to appear next year, as wefl as
undertaking other editorial tasks connected with the
putt cation of Hafeiu/s Statutes Volumes and Sendee.

Common sense and the ability to work quickly and with
the utmost attention to detail are essential requirements In
the successful applicant who must also possess a law
degree or professional qualification. An amity to type and
famftanty with Apple Mac II, wHe not essential as
training win be given, would be an advantage.
Appointment salary on the above scales win depend on
quatifications and experience.

We offer good conditions of employment incfutflng £30
per month LVs, 25 + 3 days annual leave and interest
free season ticket loan.

I the effect of

season ticket loan.

Applications (please quote Job Tide and
Personnel Manager, Butterworth & Co (I
68 Klngsway. LONDON WCZB 6AB.

WC2B 6AB.

EL ButterworthSi

^ .1 Part of Reed International

NEW BUSINESS
MANAGER

ADVERTISWGASSISTMT

£ 12,500

New Advertising Agency, Londpn based, requires
young, ambitious, energetic and self starting
male/female to spearhead its new business drive.
Evidence of sales success in advertising, airtime
selling or related industries is essential.

Salary negotiable plus company car.

We are a small advertising department in a rapidly growing, not so small
company Shaping the image of Office Angels in the media is our responsibility;
mediating between branches, agencies & press is also intrinsic.

Exceptional expansion means we need additional brain power- an assistant with
wit, talent, creativity & a succinct style-in short, an expressive writer. And that’s
not all - you’ll also have to be a diplomatic, confident go-between.

Someone well-educated, with reasonable typing & one or two jobs under their
belt will find this a unique break into copywriting. Prospects look bright as we
continue to develop.

Please write, enclosing CV to SARAH RAYNER, ADVERTISING EXECUTIVE,
OFFICE ANGELS LIMITED, WELLS HOUSE, 79 WELLS STREET, LONDON W1

Super opportunity to join a highly professional,
motivated team embarking on exciting new

venture.

ce

NEWS/

PRODUCTION

Dae to interna] promotion and subsequent
reor^nisation, European Rubber Journal, a
monthly trade/technical magazine covering the
international rubber indusoy is seeking a
News/Production Editor with sharp news
re porting, editing and production skills.

A knowledge of the industry is helpful but ability
to dig out news stories, write dear concise
English and edit copy with an eye for details is
paramount Extensive trade/technical journal
experience essential, as is the ability to design
and layout pages, liaise with primers and oversee
the work of a team of international contributors.
Fluency in one or mote of the main European
languages would be a distinct advantage, as
would tbe ability to use a camera.

European Rubber Journal is part of Crain
Communications Ltd, a division of Crain
Communications Fox. one of America’s largest

privately owned publishers.

The post wiQ cany an attractive salary.

Please send applications with toll details of your
education and work experience, atom with
samples of your written work, to: Paul Mitchell,
Managing Director, Crain Communications Ltd,
20-22 Bedford Row, London WC1K 4EW.

Send your CV to Christine Fitch
at the address below.

lECKBITHENTI

CONSULTANTS

126-127 Shoreditch High Street,
London, El 6JA.

LONDON g*®*,

TOURIST BOARD

Oimtabta

CZrca £19K

fifrKH ASSOCwTOt Of Cv^EUlMlEDPAteWS

PUBLIC RELATIONS/
FUNDRAISING SECRETARY

BACUP the Innovative cower charity, providing
information, advice and support to cancer pa tient s and
their famites. Is toowna for an enthusiastic secretary to
support its small highly professional PR/Funttiaisaig
team. Ful secretarial and word pr o ce ss ing skHs are
required.

TNs de ma nd in g post wffl suit someone interested In
working in a hectic, challenging environment with
pwccu&r responsitifttles of tneir own and opportunities
to gam experience In all areas of puMe relations and

Safety: EM0U to £9400 freWCtag London Weighting).
For job description ptaosa contact Tbaraaa SMnctoo,

Forjob description ptaoso contact Tbaraaa ShrimptM,
BACUP, 121/123 CfMrtMtniMe Street, London EC1M
MA Telephone: 01 GW 1788.

Basing data 23rd De ce mber. 1388.

ABC International, the travel industry’s premier source of
travel information worldwide, is a subsidiary of the £2
billion turnover Reed fntemefnnd publishing group.
Our publications are used worldwide by airlines, travel
agents and commercial companies.

You veil be rasporuMe for several Ley hard copy
publications, with a total turnover in excess of £1 S
million, which complement our mainstay, the World
Airways Guide.

Reporting to rise Pubfishmg Director, you wffl implement
the agreed publishing potcy to achieve maximum profit
contribution. This rale involves the identification and
devel op ment of new publishing opportunities, you wdl
also be responsible for developing and extending our
currant desk-top publishing operation.

You will be involved m editing and commissioning
moterird, budgeting, market research, negotiation and
wilt need a brood underslcxtding of the editorial
and production processes.

A strong publishing background is essential, travel
industry experience would be advantageous. Your sound
communication skids, both written and verbal plus
effective management, will be backed by strong
Organactioflal ability.

Benefits are comme n surate with o maj o r int e rnational
com p any and indude a contributory pension scheme
If you feel that you can meet the demands of this
challenging role, please forward your cv. to Gina
Wiftamson, Personnel Manager, ABC International,
World Timetable Centre, Churcn Street, Dunstable, Both.
LU5 4HBl

BOROUGH LIAISON/
RESEARCH OFFICER

The London Tourist Board and Convention
Bureau, in London SW1, is seeking an
enthusiastic and numerate person to work
within a small team providing general support to
the Head of Borough Liaison and Development
Specific arras of responsibility wifi encompass
the maintenance and updating of the statistical
data base and the compilation of an annual
digest of statistics together with related duties.
Liaison with the London Boroughs and
involvement with the Joint London Tourism
Forum will also play a large part for tile
successful candidate who will need to be able
to work on his/her awn initiative whilst having a
patient and mature approach, probably coupled
with experience gained within a Local
Government environment or a background in
Research or Tourism.

TUMBLE TOTS (UK) LTD

AN ACTIVE PHYSICAL PLAY
PROGRAMME FOR PRE-SCHOOL
CHILDREN

£13,000 PER ANNUM

An enthusiastic professional
communicator is required to promote
all the activities and objectives of this
highly successful company.

Tire post demands Imagination,
motivation and a determination to
succeed as well as the sensitivity to
work with people from all walks of life.

Aged 25+ and educated to A level
standard is desirable but ideally we are
looking tor an applicant with practical
experience m.the industry.

industry.

Write with fun CV to Isabelle QUmour,
Chief Executive,

Tumble Tots (UK) Ltd,
Cannons Sports Ckd>,

Cousin Lane, London EC4R 3TE.

ALEXANDRA. PALACE AND PARK

SALES MANAGER

Salary: circa £18,800

London’s newest most up-to-date
exhibitions, events, sports and
entertainment venue ALEXANDRA
PALACE is looking for the right person to
head the SALES DEPARTMENT.

Appointment salary negotiable in the range of
£12,671 - £15,816 per annum.

Please contact Pers o nnel pn 01-730 8450.

Royal Over-Seas League

MTBUWnONAl

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
AND EDITOR OF
QUARTERLY MAGAZINE

For worldwide Commonwealth membership
org a nization. An interesting and wide ranging
appo in tment which Includes pubKcfty. marketing,
promotion, arrangement of programme of events
for the membership, and Editorship of Quarterly
Magazine.

Applicants shoidd be adaptable. Interested fn
working wttfi people from all over the world, and
have experience in at least some of the activities
listed above. Lflcely age 27-40. Appointment to start
in February 1989. Salary: c. £15,000.

Pleaes write with CV to Director-General (DPRk

Royal Over-Sou League, Park Piece, St James's
Surat London SW1A1LR.

Alexandra Palace has an excellent senior
management team already in place - we
are now looking fora Sales Manager:

As Sales Manager you will head up our
Sales Department and be responsible for

the continued success of Alexandra Palace

in achieving the realistic targets for revenue
and occupancy

The successful candidate will have
had previous experience in sales and
marketing in one or more of the exhibition,
conference, sport or entertainment fields.
Knowledge of a second European language
would be advantageous.

If you believe you have the flair and
energy to make what will
undoubtedly be a major contribution
to Alexandra Palace's ongoing
success contact, in the first instance
Yvonne Fullerton on 01-883 6477 '

ext 243 for details, or write to
Alexandra Palace Management Team,
Wood Green, London N22 4AY.

Closing date: 14 December1988.

Haringey is working towards becoming
an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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The face of change: Joyce Hopkirk at the editor's desk of her magazine

She who must
be a success

W hen Joyce Hop-
kirk was invited
to edit SHE, her
image of the vet¬
eran women’s
magazine was of
bizane human interest stories -
including the infamous article on
eating placenta. “I had a vague idea
that SHE was a features magazine
with a strange sense of humour,”
she recalls.

fn her two years as editor she has
so transformed the 34-year-old
monthly magazine that she was last
week Judged to be Women's Maga¬
zine Editor of the Year by her peers
in the British Society of Magazine
Editors (BSME).

At the awards ceremony, the
society’s chairwoman. Dee Nolan,
editor of the Sunday Express Maga¬
zine. applauded ' the fact that
Hopkirk has maintained SHE'S
“quirky originality without bowing
to stereotypes or mimicking other
titles”, adding that the editorial has
become “innovative and stylish.”

For Hopkirk who, as editor of
Cosmopolitan, won the BSMFs
Editor of the Year award in 1972, it
was particularly satisfying “because
the runners-up were Cosmopolitan
and EUeund 1 have bam associated
with both of them”. Since taking
oyer SHE, she has increased its
circulation (average age of reader

The award-winning
editor of SHE talks
to Sally Brompton

38.4) from less than 200,000 to
more than 212,000.

The BSME, which has 190 mem¬
bers, presents five categories of
awards each year. The selection is
based upon nominations both by
society members and non-member
editors. Any publication may be.
nominated. The overall title of
Editor of the Year is voted for by
members and was this year won by
Maggie Goodman of Hello.

At a lime when women’s maga¬
zines are proliferating, SHEs rising
circulation and acclaim within the
media is a remarkable tribute to its
editor and her team. With .more
than 200 women's magazines on the
market, the competition is cut¬
throat. Recent invaders, many from
overseas, such as Elle. New Woman,
Prima, Bella and Best, are challeng¬
ing traditional titles.

“There does seem to be a sort of
unending appetite which amazes
me,” Hopldrk says. “I don't feel
personally threatened because I
think we are lucky that SHE is in

such a unique slot. The only wav for
us to survive is to be slightly
different-”

Hopkirk finds that she is able to
relate to SHFs readers. “I feel I’m
talking to my son of woman who
has too much on her plate.”
Married for the second time, with
two children aged 22 and 13, she
leaves her Hertfordshire house at
7am and returns at 8pm.

She rose, from cub reporter on the
Gateshead Post, to become royal
reporter on the Daily Express.
assistant editor of the Daily Mirror,
women's editor of The Sunday
Times and editorial director for the
launch of Elle. She admits that she 1
was “rather disappointed” not to
have become Fleet Street's first
woman editor.

One of the first things she did
when she took over SHE was to
banish “all those black and white
advertisements for piles”. She then
set about taking the magazine up
market.

She has broken with the SHE \
tradition of using “untargeted” |
amateur contributions but still
receives sackfuls of ■ manuscripts
every week- Recent “gems” in¬
cluded the one from a magistrate
who. stuck in a snow drift, suffering
from mastitis, suckled her new-born .
baby on the family dog.

T he three US television
networks have relaxed
their deadly rivalry to
join forces on a powerful
Christmas anti-dri nking and
driving campaign. In both
public service announcements
and in specially-written epi¬
sodes of their prime-time
programmes, CBS, NBC and
ABC are all focusing on the
“designated driver” — the
person who remains sober to
safely drive his or her drinking
companions home.

“This is the first time aD
three networks have agreed to
sponsor simultaneous public
service campaigns promoting
an identical message,” says
Jay Winsten, director for the
Centre far Health Commu¬
nication at the Harvard
University School of Public
Health. The centre has
masterminded the designated

driver campaign, and per¬
suaded-the networks to incor¬
porate the message in their
programmes.

Winsten was helped by the
television supremo Grant
linker and the former CBS
president Frank Stanton.
They introduced him to al¬
most 100 writers and produc¬
ers at the large Hollywood
studios and found that “the
overwhelming majority re¬
sponded enthusiastically”. So
far, IS prime-time pro¬
grammes, including the popu¬
lar sitcoms Who’s The Boss
and Mr Belvedere, and the cop
show Hunter, have included
dialogue, and in some cases
entire plots, involving the
designated driver theme.
More programmes will ad¬
dress the issue in future.

“If it got in the way of the
entertainment value, I assume

Taking the
sober view

American television unites against
the drunken driver for Christmas

they wouldn't do it,” Winsten
says. “But some producers
have obviously found dra¬
matic potential in the theme.”

Over the holiday period,
each network also plans to air
its own public service spots
approximately 20 limes a
week, mostly in prime-time.
To help make the spots more
effective, CBS commissioned

research from Saatchi &
Saatchi. “This showed that, to
appeal to young people, we
should not make the des¬
ignated driver an authori¬
tative or parental figure,” says
Matthew Margo, CBS vice-
president for programme
practices. New York.

“We feel the alcohol prob¬
lem is a lot broader than

merely reinforcing the idea of
the designated driver, but
we’re squarely behind that
message because we feel it is
achievable.” Margo says CBS
also forbids the glamorization
of alcohol in its programmes,
and insists on showing the
negative effects of over¬
consumption. NBC claims it
has been broadcasting public
service messages to that effect
for a decade.

But Winsten insists that the
current campaign “isn't only
about alcohol use — it's about
changing social norms relating
to driving after drinking. Pub¬
lic opinion surveys show that
those norms are already
changing. We believe we can
change them further through
the mass media. By reflecting
changing attitudes, television
can reinforce them and add
momentum to them.”

The need, he insists, is great
According to statistics, 24,000
Americans die. and a further
53,000 receive serious inju¬
ries, as a result of alcohol-
related traffic accidents.

Winsten is optimistic about
the effects of the television
campaign. Attitudes are al¬
ready changing, he says. Even
in recent programmes dealing
with the issue of drunk driv¬
ing, not all producers acted in
direct response to the Harvard
campaign. For example, a few
weeks ago, at the beginning of
the new television season, the
writers of NBCs newest hit
sitcom, Raseanne. had on
their own initiative relocated
the neighbourhood bar by a
few miles, so the men who
regularly stopped in for a
drink after work could all walk

h ° me " Sue Woodman

BYLINES

Problems writ large

The editor of The Independent^ Andreas Wfaittam Smith, is
faced with legal action after an article in his paper reappeared
in the Observer. The problem began when Harrods store
owners. House of Fraser Holdings, complained to the Press
Council alleging that The Independent carried a defamatory
article written by the chairman of the Broadcasting Standards
Council, Lord Rees-Mogg, The piece, published early last
month, referred to Tin}- Rowland and the takeover of Harrods
by the AJ Fayed brothers. House of Fraser was prepared to let
the matter rest after the paper published a letter. But the
company is now threatening legal action because YVhirtam
Smith allowed Lonrbo to reproduce the offending article in a
series of advertisements — one of which has appeared in
Lo nr bo’s own newspaper, the Observer : This, coupled with
Whhtam Smith’s recent announcement that there is not going
to be a Sunday Independent, has fuelled speculation that The
Independent is back in disenssions about buying the Observer.

Infelicitous

As a senior executive at The
Daily Telegraph so delicately
put ic “The editing chemistry
between Max and Felicity did
not work well.”

Indeed, there has been
considerable friction between
Max Hastings, the editor of
the Telegraph, and Felicity
Lawrence since her magazine
moved from Sunday to Sat¬
urday and came under the
aegis of the daily paper.

The announcement that
she would cease to be editor
closely followed the British
Society of Magazine Editors'
Awards results. These named
her as editor of the year in the
colour supplements section,
to the astonishment or many
magazine watchers who be¬
lieved that the editors of You
and The Sunday Times
magazine were stronger
contenders.

However, a solution was
found with her appointment
to a new post called Head of
Development, Magazines,
which is directly responsible
to chief executive Andrew
Knight. “The Telegraph has
long been looking at the
possibilities of expanding into
magazines which would com¬
plement the newspapers,” he
said. Lawrence will continue
to edit until the New Year.

Lloyd’s belles

As if it had not drama
enough, Lloyd's of London
may become the focus of a
television mini-series. Two
independent approaches have
so far been agreed in principle
by LloydS, one from the BBC
to be co-produced with an
American company, the other
from the US-based company.

Flying High. Both are now-
busy talking to underwriters,
brokers, loss adjustors and
claims investigators about the
series.

Briefing_

A very special offer from the
publisher of House and
Garden magazine. It is offer¬
ing a 25 per cent discount to
regular subscribers. It will
cost ibem 45p more to sign up
for a year than if they bought
each issue individually ...
The Evening Standard moves
from its home in the Daily
Express building to (be
revitalized Barker’s building
— Northclifie House, Ken¬
sington High Street — after
the last edition on Friday. It
will be followed by the Mail
on Sunday, which' will move
in June, and the Daily Mail in
July... DC Thompson is
launching a glossy magazine
called Opera Now for opera
enthusiasts in March

_Capita] Radio is joining

forces with LBC to bid for an
ethnic incremental contract in
London... Rupert Murdoch
is planning to launch a sixth
Sky channel specializing in
the arts and classical movies
... The KBA has revealed
that its issue of radio con¬
tracts has been oversub¬
scribed. It has received 520
bids for 20 contracts -being
offered across the country and
200 letters of intent for a
possible five in London.

Jane Slade

BBC Chairman Marmaduke
Hussey received a 4.7 per
cent salary increase during
the year ended March 31,
1988 and not 30 per cent as
reported last week.

Public Relations

Officer to £14,369

Here's a chance to put the worlds largest Ambulance Service In the
picture. The London Ambulance service is looking for an experienced
communicator to become Its Public Relations Officer:

7he job demands a positive approach to keep Londoners and 3,000
las. staff fully Informed about developments in the service and a
sympathetic manner in handling complaints from members of the
public. There will also be considerable emphasis on developing and
maintaining dose links with national and local media, the production
of promotional material and arranging publicity fOr major events.

The successful candidate win be expected to demonstrate a creative
approach and be capable of presenting new ideas persuasively at senior
level.

For an application form and further details please telephone oi -928 0533
extension 2320 or write to the Personnel Department IP/LASJ, London
Ambulance Service Headquarters. 220 Waterloo Road, London SE1 BSD.

LONDON AMBULANCE SERVICE

THE WORLD WIDE FUND FOR
NATURE

The leading international conservation
organisation requires a

MARKETING ANALYST

To provide and interpret regular and ad hoc statistical
analyses of their extensive member/customer database
held on an IBM System 38, using an IBM PS2/80 equipped
with Lotus 1-2-3, graphics, SMART and a range of
planning and forecasting models.

The ability to manipulate data and interpret the resulting
analysis for marketing staff via regular written reporting
is essential.

The position also encompasses responsibility for
maintaining the Marketing Information Library and
monitoring of competitor activities.

The successful candidate will be educated to degree/HND
level and will have 6-12 months relevant work experience.
A competitive salary forms part of an attractive benefits
package, which includes employers pension and four
weeks’ annual holiday.

Please apply with full curriculum vitae to:

z * ■% Mrs V icky Burbridge
((•ti WWF-UK, Panda House
nff Weyside Park
^ Godalming, Surrey GU71XR

FEATURES EDITOR

Auto Express, Britain's brightest
motoring weekly is looking lor a top-
fb'ghtFeatures Editor. We need someone
with the best contacts book around to
commission and write a wide variety of
punchv, lively motoring-based features.

m . Ideally, you will have

ShPy f' j Ts worked on the
jjgjjgfr-/ features desk ot

ffllinf P IT or weekly magazine. You

HUN r II wiUbe a self-starter and

I fill/ LL II tove a toad full ot ideas.

1 You'll also to highly 1

You ought to contact...

John Smyth, Editor, Auto Express, Greater London House, ;
Hampstead Road. London NW1 7QZ. Tel: 01-387 6611. !

CLIENT LIAISON
EXECUTIVE

KENT BASED

This expanding Recruitment
Consultancy is looking for a dynamic,
ambitious person for a new position
which involves promoting and _
marketing our company's services m
Kent and Greater London-

Basic salary plus unlimited bonus.

Ring Wendy George on

(01) 464 6460

SUB EDITOR

up to £15,000 + superb pkg

Two otjrtstandrng opportunities exist to join
one of the City's most dynamic financial
institutions. This illustrious Company has
expanded from 0 to approx 400 people over
the last four years and is really proving itself
to be highly successful both here and
abroad.

We are searching for two exceptional people
to join them as ‘Sub-editors’, you must have
about ■ two years proof-reading/editing
experience - if this work was on a Financial
Journal so much the better! You should be
familiar with word-processing packages and
be computer literate. A keen eye for detail is
also essential. Definitely someone who is
bright and intelligent (of degree calibre but
not necessarily a graduate).

You will be editing overseas research
material. A really good career move into a
Company with an exciting future.

Ring: Amanda, M&ine-Tueker, to discuss
this further.

Tel: 01-925 0549

SO Pall Mall SUamts’5 Lowtou SWIY SLB Tdepbcoe 01-925 0548

PHOTOGRAPHER’S

AGENT

requires

ENERGETIC,

PERSONABLE

ASSISTANT

Basic secretarial, book-keeping

and own car preferable.

Please reply with CV and
covering letter.

K. BARKER
5 Inverness Mews,
London, W2
FAX NO: 727 7554

BBB

We are an equal opportunities employer

Education Officer Radiol

The new Education and Sport Service — Radio 5 — creates the need for
an Education Officer to work alongside the Continuing Education Radio
Department Additionally the Education Officer may he required to
work occasionally with BBC Local Radio and with the School Radio
Deportment.

Initially, you will he concerned with identifying potential areas of
interest among new audiences, establishing how these might best be met in
educational terms by the output of the new network I including implications
y— i t . 7 for programme formats and styles I and identifying agencies with which the

tUtUCCLUOTUll BBC might use hilly collaborate. You would be working with a range of these

R rnnArmd 71 P agencies and with the CE Radio Producers to cranslare proposals into

n . ® effective educational projects.

3£TVIC£S You will need to be committed to. and knowledgeable about, the

potential of educational radio tor adults, will have experience of researching
adult educanonal needs and will haw worked successfully as a member of
a multi-agency projecr team. The ability to write and speak effectively is
essential.

The post will be based m London and will be transferring to the new
Corporate Headquarters at White City in 1990.

Offered as a 2 year con rracr.

Salary; £ 10.292 — £22.339 plus an allowance of £o52 p.a.

For further dentils and an application form contact (quote ref. 2750/T
and enclose s.a.e ) BbC Corporate Recruitment Services, London
_ WIA 1AA. Tel. 01-927 5799. _

Producers Radio Merseyside

Radio Mersevside needs two news producers to serve its large and
demandingaudience.

One of the posts involves producing our Sony award winning Morning
Merseyside programme, exploring issues in depth, dealing with
contributors, setting up jobs for keen as mustard reporters and making large
contributions on air. You will also be involved in bulletin production.

iRef. 2733/T)

if vou have a flair for politics, applications are also invited to fill the
post of local government producer. Merseyside has some of the most
volatile and stimulating politics in rhe country. Wfe need someone to
BBC North West unearth hard political stories and contribute to our sequence programmes
and a weekly poll deal magazine. i Ref. 2743/Tl

Proven journalistic experience at sub-editor or reporter level; good
microphune voice, ability to operate technical equipment and mirk under
pressure as part of a small, integrated team and current driving licence
essential. You must he prepared to live dose to the Station.

Salary ill 1.371 — £Io.08O plus an allowance ot £1,114 p.a. Based
Liverpool.

For furrher detaiLs contact Barbara Taylor on 051-70S 5 500.

For an application form please telephone BBC North West
Recruitment on 061-236 8536 quoting appropriate reference.

Completed application forms should be returned by
Wednesday, December 21sr.

BBC North. West

Relocation expenses considered for permanent posts*
Published by BBC Corporate Remrirmeni Services. London WIA 1A A

INDEPENDENT CONSULTING AND MANAGEMENT CO. LTD.

We are a fast growing subsidiary of a major PAN EUROPEAN
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY GROUP. We now have vacancies to fin
the position of:

Delegate Consultant

The successful candidate will be over 25, well organised with a good
general knowledge with the willpower to succeed and able to negotiate
at a Senior level. Comprehensive training and assistance will be given.
As a Delegate Consultant you are responsible for the development of
business with small and medium size companies in your region.

This position offers a high income with all possibilities of fast
promotion.

PttHUp Evans In Sheffield an 0742 670067
Stephen Harper hi Stating bam an 021[ 5312000
Richard Dickson In C am b rid ge on 0223 63421

■ Call Today, Wednesday 7 December OWL;

■ Brian Cannon in Loodoa db 01 5*1 S171

■ CeB today. Wednesday 7 December or tomorrow
Thursday 8 December.

The TWIST-AT.

Desktop Publishing in a LARGER
format with a twist of the screen!
Also available with laser printer,
scanner and software for a total DTP
System, fully supported by FACIT

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Tefe (0634)830008

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BI-LINGUAL GERMAN
£16,000

Luxurious surroundings, and expanding
company, the chance to use your languages
and earn a high salary. A true PA position as
you asset the Chairman at board level who
runs this busy company. Excellent benefits.
Don’t hesitate Call 434 0030 now!

Rec Cons
Remises Buflkflnw

215*217 Oxford Street, London W1R 1AH

LA CREME DE LA CREME

1

BI-LINGUAL SPANISH
£13,000

Use your Spanish and become secretary to the
Director responsible for Marketing this
European service, mainly In Spain. Lots to
.learn, deaSngs with clients, a busy professional
atmosphere and nice location.

Don't delay Call 434 0030 now.

Rec Cons
Ramifies BuiHcfings

215-217 Oxford Street, London W1R 1AH

DEPARTMENT OP MODERN LANGUAGES

DEPARTMENTAL

SECRETARY

Up to £10,824 pa

Ungufemc and audo typing Kmy or experience would be
advantageous.

Benefits ncfude over 26 days toSday.

AppScaflon toms and farther details are ratable from

Borough Road, London SE1 OAA-Tet
(answering sonice &00 an to Sin pm).
Phase quota
RefiDS/ML
Closing data:

LEGAL AUDIO
SECRETARY

FOR PARTNER

We are looking for a senior secretary
to Join our Company Department in
the New rear.

Applicants should have previous legal
or similar experience, excellent
skills and WP.

Salary c. £13.750 + STL & LVs

Please write win full career details to:

The Personnel Administrator,
Travers Smith Braithwalte,

6 Snow H01, London EC1A 2AL
or telephone 01*248 9133

(No Aganciea)

POLYTECHNIC

LETTINGS NEGOTIATOR

Required for leading Chelsea Agency Experience not
essential, but knowledge of rentals market would
help Bright articulate person in early 20‘s with sense
of numour. Good salary + commission and share of
Co car. Please apply in st ri ct e st confidence to:
Kenratt Turner. 59 Cadomn St London SW3
2QJ. Telephone 01-584 2531. No Agencies.

- MERIDIAN-*

PROPERTY/MARKETING

ADMINISTRATOR

c£16,000

Our cfient is one of the fastest-growing property
developers in the country, with innovative projects ad
over the UJC They are seeking a highly motivated,
wen org an i se d Individual (an ex-p A.T) to assist their
Marketing Manager - IdeaBy someone with a back¬
ground tn marketing or property. Lotus 1-2-3
experience Is a must

Rec Cons
0 1 255 1555—

CREATIVE, MEDIA &
MARKETING APPOINTMENTS

I he Specialist Housing Division
of Barry Rhodes Advertising is set
to comer the market in the next two years,
we need an Account Executive who is already
handling one or more Housebuilder accounts to
join our senior team.

You wiU be about thirty and already living and
breathing the housing scene. You will know
every' facet of this specialist market and will be
ready' for the big move. The support we can offer
you in ihe field is unique to ihe Agency world.
This is a golden opportunity for a highly
motivated decisive person wishing to jump onto
a bandwaggon. we want the right man urgently.
Midlander preferred. Everything is negotiable.
Profit and Share Option Schemes coming into
the package soon.

ECRET ARY/35
PA ||

Required for small city 25
stockbrokers. Salary *5?
£11.000+. WP/T>K/-fi£
Reception

Good prospects for
beginning career in X
1 securities industry, m

Please contact 2$
Gavin Flaxman x

.WO EXECUTIVE SEARCHERS WELL PAY UP TO

£20.000FORYOU TO SEARCH FOR THEM

Two executive search companies
are searching for top flight
commercially minded
PA/secrctaries.

One of them needs 100/60skills,
die other good audio. For either
of the two positions you rrmsr be
flexible because one minute
you’ll be talking to a chairman,
nexr minute you’re-making cups
ofcoffeef Each company wants
someone wdl presented, a good

organiser, intelligent, accurate
and a hand worker-especially
when underpressure.' Both
need someone wdl educated -
preferably three‘A’ levels for rhe
senior of die two positions.
Previous comparable experience
would hdp.

Circa £16,000/£20,000.

173 New Bond Street,

London W1Y9PB.

Telephone: 01-4990092

THE RIGHT PEOPLE FOR THE RIGHT PEOPLE

MEDICAL
SECRETARY
Devmshhe Place.

Bray teaching hoipiijd

mxrenEranrV prance
requires

£11,000 tubist to review.

01 935 8917.

CREAT IVE, MEDIA &
IMARKETING APPOINTMEN

toWir In confidence to The Chairman.

Barry Rhodes Advertising Limited

Bloxwich HalL High Street. Bloxwich.
Walsall, west Midlands WS3 2PB.

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con suit a ncy

PR MANAGER

PACKAGE £20 -£25K

We are one of the top ten
des'gn consultancies.

If you are 25 - 32. a proven'professional
<r cn a ccrsj!tcr- C y background a*d
WPu J e-,oy "“e c'P'i ence c buroog on
tre s-tcess of a s-nc'.c V en»", w te
aen.e,everts a no ten us
wry .-.o she. d ar.ca * you

FARRAR

STEAD

UlCLVN

MOTIVATED

NEGOTIATOR

FOR RESIDENTIAL
SALES

Our requirements are exacting
but the rewards are good.
Are you hard working,
ambitious, seif motivated and
enthusiastic?

If you think you can rise to it }
we can offer you a challenge!

Contact Kate Calvert at
Farrar Stead & Glyn
Telephone 01-3701441.

(No Agencies)

THE LAW SOCIETY

Personal Assistant to the Controller
Management and Computing Services
c. £11,000 pa

This is a key post at the hub of a lively and friendly department.

The Management and Ounpotiiig, Services Department is responsible for all
aspects of computing in the Society and provide an «n»wn»i managemen t
consultancy service.

Using bodily developed organisational skills and you will provide a foil
secretarial ™ administrative service to the Controller *nd the Department.

Flexibility is as the varied duties win include typing r epo r t s and

programme sptoficcions nuking annngemcnls for meetings, telephone liaison,
rteaRng with invoices taking notes of meetings.

You win also take an active part in the recruitment of a dcw secretary who win
act as your assistant.

A general interest in computers win be useful when relating to the departments
staff You win need a mnrimuni 2 years secretarial experience, excellent Wang
WP and anHifl skills, shorthand useful not M wi ri ^ l,

Please send foil typed CV to the Assistant Personnel Officer, The Law Society,
113 Chancery Lane, London, WC2 1PL.

Chetag date for ap pBeathms Id December, 1988.

Ihe Lor Satiety it m Equal Opportaaities Employer.

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WELL SPOKEN? QUICK THINKING?
SPORTS MINDED?

SHROPSHIRE PUBLICATIONS is one of the UK’s fastest growing
specialist publishing companies with a base of established
excellence in their international publications.

Our continued expansion necessitates our offer of a career in
advertising sales for people who display outstanding levels of
flair and determination, which will enable them to achieve
success in our highly competitive environment

Applicants, who must be exceptionally articulate and educated to
’A' level standard, will ideally be 25-50 years of age, and possess

the ability and confidence to deal at Director level.

Realistic income in excess of £25,000 during the first 12 months.
Based in central London.

For interview, telephone the Sales Director,

Dennis Wood on

01-636 8917

SUB EDITOR

LOOSELEAF TEXTBOOKS
£10,463 - £13,032

The job involves the organisation of tooseteat ssnrtce
issues from manuscript through to publication, aid all
(hat that entails. Each sub-editor las primary
rKponshSty for a renter of titles and b required to
chase manuscript, copy edit approve prugam m e s .
prepare Inserting retractions and related matter, proof
read, pass for press, secure copyright permissions ste
The sub-eStor Is the main liaison point for aiRhors,
mdexvs and internal departments such as Tables,
Production and Promotion.

Applicants should ideally have a taw degree or
professional Qualification. Sub-editing experience,
especially on tooseteat works, is desirable, and me Gritty
to type would be useful.

Appointment salary an the above scales win depend on
qualifications and experience.

Wfe offer good coreStions of employment including £30
par month LVs. 25 + 3 days annual leave and interest
free season ticket tom.

gPPfcattons (please mots Job Title and Department) to
Personnel Manner. Butterworth & Co (PiMshere) ltd.
86 Kmgsway, LONDON WC2B 6AB.

BE A V.I.P
TO 2 VP’s
swi-

£13(000 aae

Theyl make a fuss of you
If you join as Mr
secretary and heto them '
run the London office of a
woridwte management
consultancy. You! need to
bethssoulafdbcratton,
accurate end have good

CaS us now

Bernadette of
Beauchamp Place
raw tap* M swans

100yds from Harrods

01-589 4422

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LOSE INCHES

GAIN £££.

You! positively GLOW
wfth health if you join
these SW1 m ana gement
co neuttan ta as a sec re ta ry.
FREE membership of
exebstve 5 Star Hotel
health dub with gym,
jacuzzi and sauna. Good
auto and shorthand.
Someone bright, bubbly
and wea spoken.
£13^00 plus bonus.

Cab us now

Bereadetteof
Beauchamp Place

W5/H7 Bnoptai Rd, SW3 BE

100yds from Homxta

01-589 4422

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NEW YEAR
NEW JOB?
swi -

£12,000 neg.

Large, very successful
management consultants
want Bcamoiaer numerate

secretary to |oin them on
Jan 3. Excalent promotion
prospects. Wang or Apple
experience usefd but wK
cross-train. Weal for 2nd
Jotter. Benefits Include 23
days holiday and bonus
every sbr months.

Cal us now

Benadetteof
Beauchamp Place

IK/117 Brawptae Bd. SWB IHE

100yds from Karroo^

01-589 4422 "'

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—-=l Part o( Reed International

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Conservative M.P.S require Research
Assistant Knowledge of Parliamentary
procedure essential. Salary, hours, work
location by agreement

Fullest possible details to Box No H21.

FREELANCE

RESEARCHER

avoSabie for interesting
ass^ments. Sptoafat
in quaStative market

research, htfi level
executive search.

AU. BOX NO. REPUES
SHOULD BE SBrt TQ:

BOX NO_

BOX NO. DEPT.,
P.O. BOX 484,
VWSNU STREET,
WAPPWff

MEDIA FINANCE ADVERTISING • SALES PERSONNEL - MEDIA

1 Top Executive PA 1

T £20,000 + 3

3 as

> We often talk about Jobs that need total commitment and this is exactly ~

Z what our ctiail both needs and wants. A highly energetic motivated and

Q successful Mayfair based entre pre n eur, he knows that every minute of his day !Z:

counts. As kis PA youV need to manage bis time and be proactive in bringing <

> relevant matters to his attention.

< You will play a vital role coordinating your boss, his staff and clients. £

Ej No weekends are involved but during the week die floras are long and would —

H conflict with a social life. p

55 We fed that ike perfect PA will have excellent secretarial skills and need ~

z to be aged 28-45 in order to have the breadth of exper i ence necessary. Key >

. qualities include attention to detail, an unflappable personality and excellent ~

personal presentation. .

r- Salary and benefits will fitByrrfea the level of commitment required. rj

gt Please call us on 01-439 6021for further Information or send your %

- curriculum vitae. <

S I

| HAZELL- STATON <

S RECRUITMENT SPECIAUSTS 5

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MEDIA - FINANCE ■ ADVERTISING • SALES • PERSONNEL • MEDIA

for Secretaries

CHAIRMAN’S PA AUDIO SECRETARY SEC/RECORD CO
£15,080 £14J»0 PACKAGE £ NEG

Capital Career

£15,000

The dynamic Managing Director til a
leading Financial Services Group is
looking lor a dedicated, professional
and unflappable Personal Assistant.
This challenging role will imohv
handling confidential information,
taking the initiative and providing lull
secretarial admin suppon. Tile ahilin*
to nourish in a pressurised emiron-
ment essential. Skills (120 551 requested.
If you aro lotiking tn make an excuing
career move in 1989. call us on 01-193
5787 for further details.

Gordon-Yates

Srcnmmaii Cimulunn

PA/OFFICE

MANAGER

DESIGN CONSULTANCY - W1

Opportunity for intefigent and self motivated
all-rounder, helping to run this small and busy
consultancy.

Duties would include PA and secretarial
functions, telephone liaison work, client
contact PR and office administration.

The successful applicant will have excellent
English, good secretarial skills and the ability to
work largely unsupervised. Word processing
and bookkeeping skills an advantage.
Preferred age over 23. Non smoker. Salary c.
£12,000 (negotiable).

Please write with CV to: Ktaua Wuttke, Klaus
Wuttke and Partners Limited, 5-6 Cfipstone
Street, London W1P 7EB. Tel: 01-323 2721.

Baubles and Bows

£13,000 + benefits

Hugely successful, privately-owned Cosmetic
packaging company seeks a flexible, ’fort-
holding' PA. Constant European contact
assured so French highly desirable. As well
os ensuring the smooth operation of o busy,
highly-charged office, you will be liaising
wifh subsidiary concerns: devising itineraries;
acting os a proactive filter to the recently
restructured management Skills of SO/55
and the ability to communicate ot oil levels
essential m this challenging role Age 21:30
Call 01-493 0713 today.

MERRYWEATHER ADVERTISING & SELECTION

xMEKg&bs i Lfcg,

On Chelsea Harbour

£15,000 — Design

Exciting, front-line role assured as you assist
luv /mnnvfiw Directors whose trademark is
understatement Their graphic design and cor¬
porate identity work is my much in the lime¬
light and iicTM wifi nmf lots of verve and
initiative to stamp your authority on flu's
challenging role Normal PA duties as uvll as
Nw Business inro/ifraenl: maintaining the
dipnf database and some account handling
work. Impeccable typing essential Stunning
offices overlooking the Thames at Chelsea.
Ample career opportunities. Call 01-409
1232 .

RrrruifmnX ComuiffaHts CJItllTVth

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FINANCIAL SERVICES
IN CENTRAL
HAMMERSMITH W6

New office seeks intelligent person for
a career opportunity.

Age: 20-22 years.

Must be proficient in WP

and secretarial skills.

If the above interests you please contact:

FIONA LEE — Telephone No.
01-371 1388.

SECRETARY/PA

For small, friendly
firm of Chartered
Surveyors in
Westminster.
Sense of humour and
initiative essential.
Salary negotiable
Tek 01-8281589.

appeal

CO-ORDINATOR

33

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better.

... Recruitment Consultants,
Central and Suburban London,
£11,500 - £13,000p.a. to start
plus considerable bonus and profit share

Like- so many bright people you often feel wasted;
unstretched, stagnant, bored. Not that your present job is a
bad one, it’s just so often unfulfilling. Maybe 1989 will
provide an opportunity for that elusive, oh-so-desirable
"right one", where the pace, the need for applied
imagination, ‘cleverness’, more than a mere touch of
creativity and a constant interface with real, live people can
leave you sometimes breathless, often exhausted by 6pm,
but practically always stimulated.

Office Angels are soon to open five new branch offices and
seek J8 consultants, with or without recruitment
experience. You could be joining what is generally
acknowledged as the most successful recruitment agency
team of the 1980‘s and helping us to remain that way during
the 109f)'s Loo. Perhaps you deserve the opportunity...

Please write, with the briefest of CVs, to
Laurence Rosen, Chief Executive
Office Angels Limited, Wells House,

79 Wells Street, London W1P 4AX

RECRUITMENT W_^CONSULTANTS

Director’s Secretary

We are the largest practice of Consulting Engineers in the
UK, with offices worldwide. One of our Main Board
Directors now seeks a secretary based in Central London.

Applicants should be 25+ with a good general education
and a cheerful and helpful personality. Good organisational,
communication and other secretarial skills (100/50 wpm)
are essential. Initiative, flexibility, ability to work under
pressure and a sense of humour are other attributes we
are seeking. A non-smoker would be preferred.

Salary will be negotiable depending upon experience.
Benefits include profit sharing, pension scheme, free life
assurance, accident and permanent health insurance.

Please apply in writing, quoting Ref OAP88/7A, with a
curriculum vitae to Maureen Preston, Personnel Manager

OVE ARUP PARTNERSHIP

13 Frtzroy Street, London W1P 6BQ

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DATECH

OATA-TICHNOLQCV-LTD

Cmputer Sohnims for Fjtgburrs

P.A./SEC TO MANAGING DIRECTOR

circa £12,500

Dotecb is a rapidly expanding engineerin g software & conxohancj company based in
Orpington, Kent & is a subsidiary of Skanska, one of Sweden’s largest Engineering mmp a nies .

The successful candidate will have a good educations] background (A Level/GtaduateX
rvrWIrtu secretarial skills, good WP experience, and would have already wotted at Director
level Proven administrative & organisational dills will complement the ability in “follow
through" on projects at a senior level & get the job done. Responsibilities include the upkeep of
the Mjys appointments diary, travel arrangements and follow up on business matters. Some
project work will also be involved which the PAfScc may undertake fully ar as an executive
assistant. Some personnel experience would be an advantage.

For full details of this aching opportunity to work in a young, friendly, fast moving
environment, please contact Stevie Mairetx, on 0689 36231.

DESPERATELY

UNDERSTAFFED?

UNUSUAL TALENT
GOING TO WASTE.

HltjWy exocrie'ced PA.
ivvj I? 2 i?v? average
skills, personr-sT

experience, naiwity
sr.c an

personality requ^-es a
< 3 cmar.o:r$ position m
tfi2 cert r pi London
area P;p3£? ring us
^rov,.

Honbou (Toum

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mCOV'ENT CARDSN
19 Breed Cogn, Ofy Un,
TV. Ot-036 1994

RECRUITMENT °jg*>

Target - 1992

circa £18,500 package

Inuginv for a nionurnc, the size of the
challenge. . . . Our client, urn* of the
world’s leading Mere ham linking groups,
.seeks a French speaking individual for an
exceptional .senior role. As Secrviary iq
i heir charismatic MO. your diplomacy and
professionalism will be called upon at all
nines to liaise wilh major institutions and
clients worldwide. Already working at
senior teivl - ideally in a hanking
cmmuimont — skills of 90-55 and
impeccable pft.wiit.uion are taken as
read- Age High fliers only please.

Gfll0M9?*~$"

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Contact lucy Thuroan on
01 370 6701 *xt 774.

The role of a Senior Secretary at Arthur
Andersen & Co. represents a true challenge,
and skills gained over the years are fully
utilised.

This applies to an even greater degree for the
Secretaries we are currently seeking to work
for two of our Partners.

Obviously you will be expected to have
achieved a high standard in audio/typing skills
(60 wpm) - shorthand is required for one of the
positions. However; equally important, you are
likely to be in your mia-20s ana above - to
possess the necessary maturity essential for
these opportunities.You should also have a

good education and at least five years*
experience behind you. Well groomed, you will
have a professional approach to your work
combined with first-class administrative,
organisational and technical skills.

You will be a part of one of the world's largest
and fastest-growing firms of management

.Arthur

Andersen

Maine -Tucker

fill 1 inliilrnl

BREAK INTO ADMIN!

to £13,000 + profit share + pkg

If you are looking for more responsibility; Are a good
organsen And are lively and fun enough to vrark with
PR/Advertising people, then this could be the chance
for you! The job fa about 60% admin, organising a
whole‘people scheme'- lots of Client Baison and real
organisation. You win be working beside a bright,
highly-organised Director of a world famous PR
Group - chosfog future stars for the company! tta
very rewarding working from beautiful SWT offices
with incredibly nice people, excellent prospects for a
career with the company. If you have a Rate
shorthand, 50 typing, need a new cftaBenge... call us.

Maine -Tucker

ASSISTANT IN ADVERTISING

to £13,000

Are you really keen on being a True Personal
Assistant because this absolutely charming man
needs you - although you do need a bit of shorthand
and accurate typing the secretarial Is honestly
minimal. He has the busiest diary in the West, he Is a
top Director for a famous Creative Company in the
West End. So, if you are perhaps reading this as a
bored secretary who Is stuck behind a typewriter -
this is a briKant career move for you. The company's
internal promotion is amazing, the people fun and
colourful and the offices stunning. For a job that you
could not faS to enjoy look no further!!

50Pall Mall ^James's London SWlYSLBTdepfaone: 01-925 0548 | | 50 Pill MaUSUamcs*s LoadonSWIY5LBTefcpbo«: 01-925 QM*

Maine -Tucker

50 Ml Mall SUimes's London SWIY5U Telephone 01-925 0548

Maine -Tucker

TOP RECEPTIONIST?

£12,000 + Vary Large Bonus + Perks

An citr em ely prratipom but friendly Company need! a really
si p a b. dabcand Rceepriomo. You will be Greeting lots of
consent p * * y* *, answering a Monvcfa switchboard (experience
enema)) and you mure be someone wbo is genuinely proud of
tier wort aad for whom nothing is too much trouble when
looking after your Company's vision - everyone not jure
iTiwmi in i wiim jqq will be woriring in benuifb] rally

given the best remuneration in

i/mAwii a warm but p rofe ssional person is caught, aged 26-35
with prerennoioo and good voice and Qiaracteri

50 PaflMaUSUanw’s London SWIY5LB Telephone 01-925 0548

Euro-Design

Bi-lingual PA

Successful young design consultancy specia¬
lising in interior and graphic design seeks a
highly<ompetent PA to work alongside their
two Creative Directors. Both young and
charming, they travel extensively, liaising
with clients abroad and establishing new
business. An aW-encompassing role where
your responsibilities will be more admin •
orientated than secretarial, with plenty of
scope for a bright, experienced individual.
Ability to translate and converse in French
essential. Salary £12.000. Typing required.
Call 01-493 0713.

MERRY WEATHER ADVERTISING & SELECTION

SPORTS EVENTS

£11,000

Sales Promotions Director of sports
sponsorship company is looking for a
gregarious, self-motivated assistant. You
will be a key member of his team and will
attend sporting events around the country
which involves occasional week-end traveL
80/60 skills. Age 2I+.

«J IGS AW 01-631 0902

University of London

ASSISTANT

EXAMINATION

OFFICER

£9,500 - £11,000

Applications are tevtted tor an Exartnattona£ntotanUnthe
Faculty of Madicaw m Sanaa House. Tna wccasstiv
applicant wB t» requfrad to under take a va riety ot ttotiea
connected with uidergradiaa examinations.

sres*

accuratery under pressure as a member of a amai txasy
taam. Matwa applicants welcome.

Salary will be dewirtned
Benefits include 34 days

hohdays. Season ticker loan. The office to catirMy tocated
wttianwalktog dtetance ot Oxford Street and five under¬
ground stations.

For further details please .contact a s soon as posstotoffie
(nsqfauw) qaedtag rda«w AH74

Of Cultured
Taste ...

Pure Reception

Our client, a substantial and prestigious
private An Gallery seeks a well-spoken,
immaculately presented Receptionist.
Based in the magnificent maibled
Gallery proper, you will be advising a
discerning clientele on forthcoming
exhibitions; attending client ponies
and exhibition launches etc A gre¬
garious socialh’-confident disposition is
essential. If you are well-educated and
enjoy a pressurised environment, tele¬
phone 01-493 5787 for an appointment

GORDONYATES

H er — CwrehuB

THE RT. HON. DR. DAVID OWEN MP

requires

A FIRST CLASS
ASSISTANT

with good shorthand and word process ing skills
to join wn»n but friendly team to handle
constituency and policy work. Letter writing
experience and/or knowledge of House of
Commons/Whitehall helpfuL

Please send c.v. to

Phoebe Roome,

Norman Shaw North Building,
Victoria Embankment,

London SW1 or
telephone 01-219 5117.

SEKRETARIN

requires a personable recre tary m i hca- London o_

We need not only good secretarial skiDs, bin agood
standard of written and spoken German, the ability to
administrate and act oo his/her initiative. This is a
smaO friendly office and involves working for the

ediuirial and advertising departments. Salary wfl] be m

excess of £1(UXX). according to experience. Please
apply in writing ioc

Mr. Brian Hawed, London Manor. I fg«i
Centre, 76, Shoe Lane, London. EC4A 3JB.

ADMINISTRATOR
for Barristers Chambers

This is an excellent opportunity for c andi d a t es from a
variety of backgrounds. No legal qualifications me
necessary, although experience of law may be useful.
It is a pan in which negotiating expertise, a flair for
public relations and a good telephone m a nn e r play a
vital role. Applicant must be honest, tactful,
courteous.

Reply with C-V.to BOX H14.

OFFICE MANAGER
£ 14,000 - £ 15,000

Run the offices, deal with suppliers
and handle the recruitment of support
staff and personnel records for this
60 strong professional firm. You win
also prepare monthly financial reports
so Lotus 123 exp or similar required.
Minimal typing on DW4 (50+ wpm
please) Age: late 20's+.

439 7001 West End
377 8600 City

SECRETARIES PLUS

The SecrrUilsl

DIRECT

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS
AND DATA
SALARY EXCELLENT!

Exerting and cha«en$yng rote as PA to Director of (ntemsttoral
Communications Company.

Varied and responatoto jxxtton wfaclt Umpire you in hm
rwjp of sacrssntf andMmrtKrattw Cum.

Exceflam skas. 100/50. reqfarad. and ptoasam tafephone
SSvZwtih the confidence to harass business and social
arrangsmems.

Ptoaaa a* 4uc»b Hentan on 01-831 <013 tor taltm

Not every secretary wants an

ordinary job

Sane people wunrayml job. If you are go od and
|y\nlrinff fivm«n^r hingHfn?i r n r inTV. films,
muski PRrod publishiig-call us.

tudyfisher

associates
01-4930238

ConsuhaflB

TO £25,000
PA/EXECUTIVE

For London Office of Chairman of
International Company. This exacting
position, which is based In the West Er

with fid C.V,

H75, Ref LM.

50% ADMIN +

Dkacrer of AiMremtlon
naadi organised PA wilh
audio, eftam. woerfanos
and a san» al nail im
andkuottottontor
aom# 0 n 0 25^5. Busty
Shcrtwnd eodd be
uaafuL

CM La* on 377 6777

DOCKLANDS

DESIGN

£ 11^00 package
Bndtoaaupwti
ranovaiadThaato a oka

VMranounttsisan
goforeantoppenaritytOra
young audo sac aaMdno

procnodon pretpocts In a
creative endronmart.
Cre Setan on 377 6717

Middleton Jeffers \ 7 Middleton Jeffa*

ima

PA

£13,000

The youw Director of a
city unentered property

ary orierteted property

development company

currently undergong an
exotrig phase at
expansion is tookmator
an experienced sartor
secretay/PAwto has
ideally wotted at top level
in London.

ResponsMefOrtiie
commercial development
of the company he wil
look to you to liase with
stockbroker and bankats,
handle confidential
proposaisand
prese ntation s and provide
administrative and
secretarial support.

This to an exceBent
opportunity for someone
wantsffl wrakina
cfallenprig London Style
environment, in
prestigious offices wiftout
the hassle of commuting!
You should be educaadto
•A' level, a car driver aid
with skids of 80/80 audio.

A$e2M5

PICCADILLY

OFFICE

Telephone:

629 9686

consultants and chartered accountants -
working in a professional but friendly
environment where ‘quality is recognised
and rewarded.

There will be a starting salary £13,000 p.a.(plus
paid overtime), and the many benefits include
Flextime, subsidised staff restaurant, season
ticket loan and free life insurance, if need be,
you will have the opportunity to train/cross
train in the latest Wang network technology.

Write now with your full c.v. to Jackie Gosling,
SeniorRecnutingOfficer, Arthur Andersen& Co,
1 Surrey Street, London WC2R 2PS.

^ Appreciating consultants...

This ad »s entirely specific. It is written to those who know first-hand /ust
how much effort and energy it takes to achieve real success as a secre¬
tarial recruitment consultant

Such success rarely come s easily Ability, endt-avour and ambition are all
necessary. But confidence is essential too. And sometimes, confidence
can be eroded by surroundings. Which brings us to the two questions wo .
would like to ask.

The first concerns loyalty in ail honesty: we have yet to meet a good
consultant who was not also o supreme advocate for then own employer
Professional pride in one's own set up is admirable Yet how often is it
warranted? is your company as uncompromising in us support of you os
you are of if?

The other point concerns career progress. The professional is often the last
to benefit from his own skill and expertise. In your case, you spend each
day of the week ad vising ofhets. But how often do you pause lo consider
your own career? Are you gaining in reword, respect and recognition 3 j
Are you appreciating, os well os appreciated, as a consultant 9 I

If not. then perhaps we should talk quite soon — ofI the record, informally !
whenever and wherever suits you best. Telephone Louise Bradley in con/i !
denceon 01-493 0713 o r write to meat 10 Dover Street. London W1X 4LB

MERfiYWEATHER ADVERTISING & SELECTION

SlsSSfflSIiiaS

SECRETARY

£ ExceUeni + m talyug e subsidy + bonus. Victoria

Based in modem spacious offices m the heart ol
Victoria, we are one of foe world's leading securities
firms. Our highly successful International Finance
Division is now looking for an energetic individual to
join us as secretary to a young, dynamic team.

As team secretary your day will be busy and your
responsibilities varied and luUy involving. Our benefits
are highly competitive, including mortgage subsidy
and bonus, ana foe rewards are great Tor someone
who is prepared to work hard ana take on challenges
and responsibility.

If you are educated to 'A' level standard and are
numerate, have shorthand ol 100 wpm and good word
processing skills, then we would like to hear from you.
Knowledge of. or foe potential to learn, graphics. Lotus
and basic research techniques is also highly desirable

II you are a self-starter who enjoys working in a fast
paced environment, then please call Sharon Lucas or
Pandit Gate ot our Human Resources Group between
the hours of 12.00pm - 2.00pm on 01-721 2459

Salomon Brothers International Limited

Victoria Plaza. 111 Buckingham Palace Road. London SW1W OSB, England
Tet: 01-721 2000

(^Publishing P.A. £ 13,000

BepaztoffireexdtinqwMdoftlQszn^orpaUislsngHQase.AsaPJL
r who is the man

to The Ccrnneiuial
operations, acquis

resta ura nt, BUKA, organised soaal ac
skills, inftiltiw e »wi enthusiasm: CbQ

it puhtishinq House. As a PA.
ian responsible for UK. publishing
cm wflfhave lots of invedveznent
ots of benefits, subsidised
ides! If you hate good s ecret ari al

rf> Workout at lunchtime £11,500

Suoer Deris, dash offices and subsidised restaurant all in one rdace!

Super perks, plush offices and subsidised restaurant all in one place!

As Secsetary/Kacmtioiiist in this prestigious company you will deal with a
variety of tasks within tins very tmsy Personnel Department assisting two
young, dynamic Managers. Your excellent p r es entation , good typing and
cammimicatinnskiUs will secure you fins very interesting position:

Call HAZEL BRANDON

01-2426321
Personnel Resources
75 Grays Inn Road, London WC1Z6US

TRAVEL AND LIVING
IN THE SUN (SOON)

PA TO CHAIRMAN
UK/US MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT
COMPANIES

1989 Chichester area 1990 Florida.
Top skills and serious career intent
leading to executive status. You will
probably be aged about 28 to 36,
numerate and adaptable, with high
level experience.

Phone Mrs Pat Barber
on 0705 671321.

HAMMERSMITH
NEW BUSINESS SEC/ASST £11,000

Apan from WP, jour rale to » help ihfc company nqare
lot the Stage E u rop ean Marker at 1992. So nY much more
tiunsn&gfii rypin*, inntivugamniflgrxwspapcn * map
lor up-uMbc-minmE info on uueroaWMi atom. Proem
uunmiria. preen your ami ttgrfc. Suit well-«hitMed
perm wnh typing, warning to combine delegated
secretarial with being ibeir own b 0 SL

Cafl MAGGIE SLATTERY, 01 741 8080.

FASHION promotion
S/H £12,000ish.

Set the precedes! m this new rate a mart thro* fan Orfbrf
Orem where therrt no In my ha searory did il This way 1 to
Ire op in. By no mans il gtomtmr, fadnon read PR brains
mnefcbi m wife the diny wort. Unhide mob seasanaL But
eoniote jnaDetf wttii the fax ift more demaamia. max (Irene,
more inched A ranmnly mare sattto jfiffmxo almost a try
taker mofesaiai, M/Si wpm. 21+ please.

Can DENISE BELSHaW, 01 434 9545.

EXCEPTIONAL
PA TO MD

Starting Salary |
c. £16,000

ThochartsnrnBc.
nmreprnnMirtii M3 of this
ttaian. -tagh finance"
company, baaed in smart)
Kmgnssbndga offices, requtmn
me top ia«el eupporr of an
oxcspOonsI PA
You <nm neeo to hava many
quaMas: m atoney. City

Bxpenence. dttmUan,
diplomacy and smart
appeerence. to name but a
few. TTw very busy MD ,
reqiitBs me sfcias ol a cam,
commuted professional P»
wnn ncetiom oroantaedOMi
■MHy and high standards of
presentation.

Your secretarial $k»a,
nctudkrg shorthand, are takon
as reed bix ins actual typing
oontnnt bkw. However, your
SOdffi and imerparaonal tWBs
wfl be of paramount
importance fri this etmflmgfeg
yet nigMy rewanting position.

Preferred Age 3&+.

International
\ Secretaries

II fit Ct’l'J-P* 1 *

"(A/ DI--J0J 710D

TRAVEL SECRETARY

£12^00 + exc toflefltt

World leadn m kanay
team m res nenwy (no SH)
tor Co Sscremiy. Good apo +
bfigW personfldy jm sense of
lusnour Ksvmei.

01-730 8122

HQRTON'MILEY

Reenftnest Carealtiats

Office

34

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 1988

LA CREME DE LA CREME I

lAceBosterBeazley

: BILINGUAL SECRETARIES

= FRENCH _ _ „ £11,500

■» Team Secretary working for 2 executives m

* Corporate Finance Department of an International
o Bank. Shorthand essential

u ITALIAN £10500 '

*■ UK agents (or famous fashion Designers requires a 1

* Shorthand Secretary to assist Director in efl aspects ‘
“ of his job espedafy marketing.

_ For further details cafl

Jonathon Barker on 01 242 8844

=> 22-23 RCDUONSTKEIIONDONWCIR 0*5

ASSOCIATES

AceBosterBeazley

ANIMAL LOVER

if working alongside anfmais appeals, then a
Director of one of London's famous emporiums
is looking for an experienced Secretary with
shorthand and typing and has confident manner
to take care of turn ami his four legged charges.

For further detafis caS
Lesley Green on 01 437 4502

ll OXFORD ORCUS AVENUE. 231 OXH3MOST. LONDON W1R IAO

ASSOCIATES

:Ace¥osterBeazley<

PUBUSHING PA £13,000 -

■* Want to work with the high Byers in the PuWshmg “
_ world? As PA to the Commensal Director who is -
1 re sponsMe tor the acqui si tion s and meraera as wen as _
the financial controfler of the UK pu&bsfing operation,
w you wfll need first class state and a cofnmfcnen! to
£ hectic working fife. The perks indude 5 weeks holiday. -
- health and pens i ons schemes and a suhriflaod 3
“ restaurant

\ FOr further dotaBs call *

Lesley Green on 01 437 4502
3 11 oxroso ocan avenue, hi axroaosttxwooN win iao =>

ASSOCIATES

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR 1989

You would love to have a new job lined up for the New Year but don't really want to miss out on
your Christmas bonus and the festivities at work. Why not start to do the groundwork? At
Finesse we can introduce you to a host ofleading companies who are currently recruiting staff
but are prepared to wait until the New Year for the right person ...

Pnom Carole Edwards
01 834 7253 or write with
CV to Premmtt Group,
34 Eccteston Square,
London SW1V1PB.

£12,000

working with another
secretary you w9 be
Involved tn aQ the
aspects of running the
office of a busy
chairman of a major
PLC. Obviously you
win need to be poised
and enfeuiate with
«xc«9era Interpersonal
skfis. French would be
an advantage. The
benefits are exceflent
and the working houni

are 10 sm to 630 pm.

Age 30-50.

SkOs 100/60.

Call 01-631 4296

RECRUITMENT ASSISTANT

The perfect opportunity to combine
practicjl experience with specialist
knowledge passed on by professionals. You
will he given thorough training and your
secretarial workload will diminish as you
establish yourselfas a key team member with
this progressive British company.

PA/

SECRETARY

£15,500

In a company where Ba.
quaBy and development ol
their staff is of prime
importance the
appointment of a secretary
uaneafMrSaNQr
Partners tsar exciting
career oppormhy. A
sacretanairutaM9i a50
par cent administrathra
content you wft enjoy a
posttri where your

p roteago naSs nv sensed

rumour and exedtant
secmufal akle efl come
to the fore.

Specialists
for the

18-25 year olds

FINESSE

APPOtNUlhMS

01-4993531/3551

INTERIOR DESIGN

This prestigious design consultancy 1 has
created some of the most luxurious office
interiors in London. You will be involved at
all stages from initial client consultation,
planning and design through to the official
champagne opening! A superb career
opportunity fora young, creative secretary:

interest
who wants a new
career will enjoy
working wtti this
oxpandmg Mayfair
legal Arm. Their
superb offices include
their own In-house
gym and an exceflent
profit share scheme.
Your audio typing
skiSs must be first
dess but then this is a

Call 01-631 4296

Ago 20-

2a

Skals65

WP.

Cafl 01-631 4296

Career in
Investment

£15,000-£18,000

Do you have a real interest in finance and City experience?

The charming Board Director of a well established and
prestigious international firm in the City seeks an intelligent
PA with initiative and flair to learn all aspects of the business
and organise his varied activities.

You should have a high standard of education and the ability
to work unsupendsed; although the secretarial content is
low, skills of 80/60 are required. Age preferred 24-42.

Please call on 01-6310479.

THE PRIVATE CAPITAL GROUP,

the personal financial management specialists within the
Scandinavian Bank Group, have the following vacancies:

Secretary to Group Financial Controller

Private Capital Group, Hill Street, Mayfair.,

Second Jobber required. Good standard of education and excellent
WP (IBM)/audio and shorthand stolis. To join young, fast-moving working
environment must however, be mature, particularly In dealing sensibly
and sensitively with confidential information. SALARY £11,000 pa.

Audio/WP Secretary

Mortgage Trust Limited, Hans Crescent Knightsbridge.

To provide secretarial support to the Administration Manager. Asset
Sales Manager and Company Accountant Good organisational skills to
deal with a variety of work in a young and friendly environment Scope to
develop PA role. SALARY £12,000 pa.

Part-time Receptionist

PC (Financial Services) Limited, Giltspur Street, EC1

A well-spoken and image conscious Receptionist Experienced
telephonist with good WP skills to work 1 Gam-2 pm with flexibility to work
longer hours if needed. SALARY £6,500.

CVs in the first instance to:

Jill King, Personnel and Training Adviser.

The Private Capital Group Limited.

Guild House, 36-38 Fenchurch Street,

London, EC3M 3DQ.

■■■■■■

HUH

ginii

The Private Capital Group

ACP

ADMINISTRATIVE & CLERICAL
PERSONNEL LIMITED

3 Lone!or.'Wait £«jilcJinc». Lencc.n Wftli, Lcnoon GC2M 53J
t«i: 01-508 358B cr- Ol -588 3S7S

Twlow No. 037374 Na. O*!'- £50 Q50“K . .'V

LEAVER
c. £8,000
Fulham-NO
shorthand but good
typing of 4S+is needed
whilst being part of
young team involved In
total office/interior
destov Superb offices
at Chelsea Harbour.
Call Alice on
400-1631.

Middleton Jeffers

Interior Design

Supervisor— £12,500

Njiri <ivrt'fiirrti/ oivniug for a bright, people
onnUiUrd Siijvn-fcw offered % prestigious
Ulterior D'sigtt studio in bibulous SWi offices.
Ideallu (kin itr,- imwc/yli’. computer literate,
it I'h' to display leadership gualitu an J effec¬
tively motivate a small industrious Sales
team Your role trill imvfiv srlliruy up irain-
ina liaising fWi'iisrivlu ivith clients: suppos¬
ing the UK MifmiiftYiis nv/f us helping irrlli
exhibition stands etc A creative tdesignttradc
palest fwlmvaut highlit desirable, j 5 1 rpm
I upiiig? Call ei-goa

Rnrui|nhHfCi'HS)rlfimL< -i*,

- fiifftrCrenreuniriiliiinrlinliiifre L

PERSONAL ASSISTANT
ERTISING AGENCY

corn and be part of the fastest
growing BrsIuss Branp la the OK

PHONE JACK KLEIN ON 01-631 4473
NO AOENCIES

MERROW EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

01-636 1487

7 Henrietta Place. London WIM 9AG

A Head Start...

... on fhe rest of the field is what you can
expect when you turn to us to find you your
first jab. A professional service and a very
diverse selection of fascinating career
opportunities have been fhe key fo our
success and continued growth Our team is
friendly and experienced — but above all
— we are sympathetic to your aspirations
as an individual Young and ambitious?
Keen to conso/rdofe your newly gained
secretarial skills? Demand the very best —
coll 01-493 0713 and give your career a
head start ....

MEBffYWEATHK ADVERTISING & SELECTION

3 LONDON WAIL HHfGS, LONDON WAIL, UHBNW EC2M 5PJ.

FRENCH-SPEAKING

COMMERCIAL

ASSISTANT

required for busy sales office.
Responsibilities will include:-
registration and progressing of orders,
liaison with customers and suppliers,
fluency in French is essential
Computer experience preferable but not
essential (training will be given).
Salary negotiable, plus good benefits.
Please send detailed CV to Box H49.

SECRETARY

Tire British Medical Journal Publishing Group
requires an experienced, mature secretary to provide
support to two Senior Executives in fhe advertising
department.

Applicants should have had SKOod general education,
possess sound secretarial skills including shorthand
and be able to work on their own initiative. A
knowledge of the Pharmaceutical or Medical industry
would be an advantage.

Starting range £9,666 - £11,782 pa annum. 24 days
holidays per year.

Please apply in writiiK. with tun career details to: Ann
Coyne, Personnel Officer, British Medical
Association. BMA House, Tavistock Square, London^
WC1H 9JP. m

DIRECT

PA/SECRETARY - CITY

ICDDtrea-alesdingDifea
Marketing Company urgently require a hi^h calibre
seuerny 10 woii as part of sales team and asas manager.

WPexperience is essential with SO wpm typing. Excrik n t
telephone mann er preferable as the Candida? will have
daily client contact.

Sorting stay u £9,500 with 8 3 month renew.
Hose od Jnfifa Bonn on 831-4013

for farther information.

RECEPTIONIST/

SECRETARY

EC1 (£11,000

Mature person with good administrative
secretarial skills (WP) required for snu
computer graphta/design company.
Please contact Hilary Collins

01 831 3630.

SENIOR PA - BRENTFORD
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY
TO £16,000

In terna tio nal Company baaed h Brantford require a
mature PA (0 wok tor Senior Partner. Interesting and i
rerfed position involving e xtens ive travel arrangements
(partner travels much of me fane), efiant liaison end
orgartsetioa Good French and/br German. 100/80 aids
and WP ex peri en ce. Age 3S+. Cal Hone PowoO.

■—01-486 6951fa^M

ANTIQUES/DANCE/
FILM/DESIGN
up to £l4,000 pa

A unique chance for a shrewd, numerate, literate and
ambnious PA to transcend the secretarial role and become
the right hand co the MD of a mull czeative empire bawd
in Central London. Ideally the candidate will be a
graduate with an eye Cor design, strong entrepreneurial
and management potential nrwf a flair for r ese arch ing new
projects white; avetsenng ones.

CV*s to Mariana, 13 C hurch Street,
London NWS 8DT

COLLEGE LEAVERS
TO £10,000
SPORTS

A tetefina sports sponsors!* company sp a ttteate g tn
averts from rugby league to ktremaaonaJ tennis need a
secretary to work tor mar Sates Promotion Director. You
mu wart dosety wtm ram. Using wan cherts end helping »
o r ganm ptemonon a events.

80/60

ADVERTISING

boematianid adverdsteg agency needs an anthualasHC.
energetic secretary wife some office experience end who
enjoys Mmg pan 6* a successful mem. You wH be
impacting oeres, fiaUng enquiries, org an is i ng launches
and struc&mng denes.

-f50

CAREER IN PUBUSHING

One of BRWris most presbotous puWsftlng house* w«i»
vreatm of wes from chfldra ns diascs to tnm year a best
sneers, need 1 eeaage leaver to work to trier putuary
O e prumwit OrgenUig temtfiea, book fairs and revwws,
you veB work eteseiy ueth authors and the press. Providing
secretanai support n ms team of young end enthusiastic
btfvttuas. you mb oonsoBdate your akiHa and pecs
yours*! finny on the pub fate ng career ladder.

Recruitment Consultants
01 925 0139

Success in PR...

£13.000

[.vs: rir/i hign-pratHc successful uo:mg
c-rwjkiKcii in a front-line role as PA to titnr
rniorpristug Cirri*/ EuvufriY PfiWiws-
tin aspects of Punnen for upur dynamic
iu'.ikj boss tii’ti tri/i eniou extensive liawt
c^iVdifidh' pirsonnel loguironuvls and
Jj.i-tChdcnj activities. If uph Hwo on opp-'*-
tjnitiCt and iwir plenty ol initiative then lilts
is njitr ideal Comp,'tint sk'iHs

-:C 7*>« Gill 01-400 12 >2

If?,- V

V

R.\nu!mn:f Conmthinls f f,

_ to the Ci'mmamiJlwas Imliislm O.I. Iv

EXECIITIVE SECRETflRY/DUBAT
TAX FREE SALARY

■ms luxunous hotel situated on me coast of the Arabian
Gulf, is looking to recruit a profes sio nal secretary with
1 0Q/BO skies to work at senior leveL Overseas and hotel
experience pr ef erred and the abHity to use own mtoatnre
essential. T& MASSE.

PUBLIC RELATIONS/SALES EXECUTIVE
TAX FREE SAURY - DUBAI

Wbrfting in the sales department of this luxurious hotel,
you w« be responsible for a number of accounts,
negotiations with conference organisers, bison with
banqueting de pa rt m e n ts and varied public relations
duties. Previous experience In De Luxe Hotels
essential , overseas experience preferable. TO MAGGIE

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY £14,000 aeg
COMPANY MOVING TO LEATHERHEAD

An excellent opportunity to be financially rewarded for
your excellent skins. Working at senior level you wia be
responsible for forward planning, energy forecasting

required. Tel MAGGIE

01-7349582 A P)A TP
puxootuy CIRCUS & AUaI TV

IINTEHNATIONAU

FRES

V 1 MIII H

Yachts Galore!

Our client is a well-established and authorita¬
tive name when it comes fo yacht brokerage
They deal in yacht dealership worldwide.
operating af the top end of the market. You
don't need fo be a good sailor to join this
campcny with a difference — but a bright,
on-the-ball enthusiast looking to be pan of
a small, close-knit team. In return they offer
an exciting environment with plenty of
involvement and scape to utilise your
excellent people skills Salary to £13.000
Competent secretarial skills. Call 01-493 0713.

MERRY WEATHER ADVERTISING 8 SELECTION

K/|Q2E^tATl]Eg

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

£15,000 + Mortgage Subsidy

Prestigious City bank require an exceflent secretary
for their demanding Senior Executive. The position
win include full secretarial duties along with organising
meetings and conferences and assisting with a wide
range of general office procedures.

Candidates should be wefl spoken, extremely well
presented with a high level of education, hardworking,
responsible and have previous experience of working
In a similar financial environment Essential skills of
100/60 plus WP experience are necessary for this
role.

CONTACT SUSAN ROWE ON 01-236 1113

BANKING

PORTMAN RECRUITMENT SERVICES LTD

Chairman’s PA
for Interior Design

r SW8 £14,000

This is the ideal position for a PA who is
seeking a varied and interesting role working
for a leading name in the field of inrerior
design.

Your responsibilities will include arran g in g
his busy schedules, communicating
effectively at all levels, assisting with office
administration and corporate PR-
Car parking is available and skills of 80/60
with WP knowledge are essential-
Age preferred 25-38.

Please call on 01-6310479.

ST GEORGE’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL
(Umrersily of London)

SECRETARY/ADMINISTNATOR

Department of Medical Oncology

. » George's Hosp ital Mate d school which is situated within
London's nwflsl, hwptel cqrntex las a vacancy within the
Swteff Uni Applicants w* be ejected to assist fat the
®}iranis»Biia« of a n«f Cancer Research Campaign funded Qfcifctii
Research UnaSsratod to Improving the treatment of breast cancer
and to prorate a sccntas sendee to a smafl. yang ami
enthusiastic research group.

AppNmrtR tfmHC have a pood PA, s ktea wUhjypino speeds of at
least 50 worn and wort pnxesgng skills. Previous experience
ganed wW*r» maflc al or scto nMe wntenmmnt will also be m
advantage Saby te negotiate depsnting on ape and experience.

C.V.'s induing two referees should in tanmrded to the Pnnatenl

ass

the 2Jad Decmhcr IBM. Oaota refarun mm.

INVOLVING JOBS
FOR YOUNG
SECRETARIES
START JANUARY
TO £16,000

Wo have a wide variety of very involving
jobs to start in January at ail levels witom
young, fun and Informat environments:
Design, Advertising, PR. Conference
Organising, The Music Business.
Property and Banking. Very busy tabs.
50% secretarial, 50% organising. They all
need bright, cheerful young secretaries.
Sh. useful but not nee. 55 typing.
Age a22.

Ptcase can us tor an interview tr>^6 OPum

LONDON BRUSSELS

BLOOMSBURY COMPUTING
CONSORTIUM

the Consortium Director. The work **31 regutf e
significant expsience ol wordprocessing and
desk-top pubfehng rechniqun Applicants
should be able to communicote dearly, to run an
office with rnmimal supervision and to show
initiative. Salary wrthm range

£11,023 - £12,967 p.a mchaive.

Applicants should sand a CV. end rise names and
oddr*«« of two referees to: Professor David Wind
[Chairman of the Consortium Management
Committee), Birkbeck CaUtge. 7/15 Gressc Street,
London W1P 1PA.

The dosing date is 6 January 1989. Further
information a available from Ms. L Gray at the
above address or on (01) 631 6497.

V CAM'

/vi j . ic r */: r x e .v s
A N * r : iv / .

SECRETARY
SALARY £10,000

We are looking for xn xmciduc well organised shorthand
secretary ro become part of our Publicity and Appeals
team.

The job invoices a wide variety of duties including all
secretanai work for two senior fundraisuig staff.
Candidates must be able to show initiative, work without
supervision and take minutes.

WP skills desirable however mining will be provided.

Telephone or write for an application form from: Ms
Janet Skeen, I CAN, Alien Graham House, 198 City
Road, London. EClV 2PH. Tel: 01 608 2462.

I CAS it eonbhf ucards Equal Opportunities.

EXPERIENCED
PA/SECRETARY/
OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

Required to wort with Partner of a mail, Crreadly but dyianac
independam pr ofessio n al consnlttn cy pnoxx
near Hoibani Tube Station.

We require a wdJ orgintsed tdf-jcurer with lOOwpasfartbaodffO
typing and VCP experience with m interest m helping to nn the office.

Previom experience in deiegnng and atganoiiig ochm
both senior and junior an advantage.

Fuil iim ilva ne nindevdnpaieaofihcfinniriflbeolfatd.

Salary negotiable £10,500 - £16,000 depending on qe and experience.

PktKKBdCV.u:

WJLH. Ordard, ORCHARD PARTNERS.

<S7-4»9 ScHhampmi Row, London WC1B 4ET

or tdepkme me form otmim
01-580 0655 SwUshboard
01-323 2749 Dina Line

EXCEPTIONAL PA

Senior Partner of 100 person City based construction

organisational skills you must hare proven experience at
senior level, a good education and above all a sense of
humour. Poise, initiative and a confid ential mature
approach are required for this varied and rewarding
position. Working knowledge of German an advantage.
E x cell ent conditions and highly competitive salary.
Ring for further details or send c.v. toe-

Sara Gardiner
40 Clifton Street
LONDON EC2A 4AY
Teh 01-377 6666

PART-TIME VACANCIES]

HARLEY

STREET

CONSULTANT

Requires ?/T Secretary/
Receptionist,
salary negotiable.
Telephone 01-580 9842.

KENSMOTMl PA £7 per hoar.
Mugonau COBKdtanfcg Uoh
in Earls Cl need a PA wim pome
SH A WP exp. Hn 9-1.
MastenocN Rac Ol 938
!B4«/171B.

PART TUNE 2/3 momlnes with
up-market KnkMsbrktge tewet-
wn. USM secretar ia l work,
carrevoraienot. Mam dtetanoa
■ tangnand will da ■ and typing
of tnonOdy accounts, must live
toeany. Previous nan timer
«>yed seven years. Inumuta ?

TeMphone Ol 489 A432. a«nb-
done of Hm ut Si amp Place CRac

PA^T reni PA/Sec/book,
kemr required by etedustva
WeM End Onoerte designer.
Work approx IB hours a wetec
coming in s or 3 days Utomtet.
Friendly relaxed atmosphere
hut.vou'U nnd booh keetung to
trial balance and PAYE, plus
imod typing . £4.700. Tel: Ol-
689 4*22. BenudeOe of

Beauchamp Pun (Rec OomJ.

TEMPING TIMES

TURN A
TEMPORARY
JOB INTO A
PERMANENT
CAREER

\ou will be able

to earn 514,200 pa

with non K

contributory WBp r v J >u!iS»

paid holidays

Phone 0V872 8885 mWipmfl
for further details.

The Senior PA/Secretarial Specialists.

DHSUYWmm Temps. Too

ram. mp awna nr Mon allbre
tanporarv seautades. human-

aie bookings. OoMrainlng

■vafl^te tor nwm experienced
on WP. CaU Kryato Mtaayat.
AMhamr Cook Bureau (Roe
Canal Ol 340 3404.

remdred to xm oar
Temporary team. Ufp tmn both
km ^. «nd short term asston-
meuts hnmedIBMy avadUble tn
10* Wte End and dry. Call Ra-
cgwan Lino Oteo Coos) 01-873-

■“■WrtteO aanerUsaV You
have Dmotutvnavwaa ev.
P*rtenceand a aoiutve amtoda,
JMatasBa i a ciu i liii Mitcwwui.
tantortenvomcyeoarroiler for
2-3 mtntbs wui a vMw topar-
numsne y and today ■
unaiav. oanwndmajob and ■
mlarar p ackage-or £ 18.000 .
OQMO+. CdteCten

LONDON PROPERTY

(evenings) 01 722 375&

■ w en pa wm h wr im

mo* conprehepotve and brum
Mfc*» o t ana «v«a la tfafc

untoue location. Mom flan bom
uksmes with provision tor cor
Ptotg- Pitta* mu C7SM0
I&IMUOL £97J50O (1 bed).

ciuxxn iz boo. 090000 a

bed). Umh 1X7 yaw. Freak
Hams & Oo 887 0077

Continued from page 18

COMMERCIAL

PROPERTY

a wcuiNiauAY UfclfcMBER 7 1988

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SUMM COIflT MST^SVa. I bed

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MAIDA

VALE

Mast be seen to be
believed Luxury
furnished 1 double
bedroom flat fully
fitted, near Maida
Vale station. AD mod-
cons. £1,000 pcm.
Company let only.
Tel 01-328 7249.

BERWICK

FINANCIAL

SERVICES PLC

MOR TGA GE FINANCE

The Utoea passive payments and the
best possible service available in the
UK

Foreign canwa y loans from 6.4%
Fasti Repayments from 9J>%
Ltm-Stan from 8.9S96
Lowest possible variable roses
Re-mmgtgt and save money mtk
our "FEE FREE " scheme

For the besi comprehensive service

telephone: 01-930 9631

11 Pall MalL London SH'IYSLU

Knkht Frank
£8 &Rutky

01-538 0744

Offices now letting

nrrHjOrt

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01-5388888

CHARTER GROUP

F7TTT77T1 s r s

^t^Farker

i Ref:/Hi

01-6063851

BERKLEY
HOUSE PLC

IWHti IJhMtrt Itrmmp On ph h

FULHAM -
RIVERSIDE

Exnikait Its. Logs 7B sunny
lounge won tetany and vrews
across Rwar Thames. 2 dooMa
bedrooms. Fitted kedm
Bathroom. Undercover parting.
Early sale required. E165JOOO.
Tot 01-937 7773 (Office)
01-381 9866 (borne).

Large stodio flat dose Itow
Kings Road. newty irfurtnsiicd.
HiBy fated separate Uteften atisl
bathroom. Class tD bus Sid
Otoe. Good tree parting.
Qaldk sale required.

£77,500 hunatukL
Tet (HI 0V229 9875,
(W) 01-968 0212 U140.

Poets £175,000 D neSJODO.

Rnhm Irvmc- hurnv

ALL ENQUIRIES

JULIAN LEWIN

01637 0821

III i =

W2

Pretty 1 bed Itatt e«i «n
W/twro gfltu ar recau tad
GOL tSlyrtie. SIOTJOO.

WEST HAMPSTEAD

Large i bed tot Long ba. Low

w jniny ypS_Qjf|Q

TEL 01 258 3918

BARBICAN

-1 bed 2 reep, lux
bright flat, reduced by
fS.000 to £120,000
for immed sale. Must
be viewed.

Tel: 01 580 4472/
5886677.

BARGAH FOB QOKX SALE

A buy Mm Pm
RIOHEIHHIC

me wuns r nuk . mva

Lga iracn atmMtu hoe. B
beds. 2 bum. 4 rec. One- Lae
guns. Red. to £500000 tor
Qutck me. Mu* be seen. No
BgnUL T Ol 4S9 8509.

ST. JOHNS WOOD,
GROVE END ROAD,
LONDON
NW8

A UNIQUE FREEHOLD PROPERTY FOR
SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY

Valuable freehold
7.000 sq ft
.Warehouse + Office
Accomodation
Bishops Stortford. Close to
Sanstead Airport
Excelierrt Factttttos/
Redevetopmam Potential

(0279)55758

RENNIE
DAVIES

r & M ARSDEN

MORTGAGES

ARE YOU BEING TOLD
THE FULL STORY?

There are over 200 potential suppliers of
mortgages in today’s money market, so it pays
to be choosy; but who is going to tell you that?
We will.

For sound, impartial advice,
we’re just a phone call awav.

01-386 9411

Open: 9am-7pm Mon, Tucs,-Thurs, Fri.

9am-9pm Wed. 10am-2pm Sat.

STOP PRESS:

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NEW INTEREST RATES FROM UL25K,
(FIXED OR VARIABLE)

FE E FRE E RE-MORTGAGES.

WRITTEN DETAILS ON REQUEST

FIMBRA

MEMBER V >

f Best!

LOapp}

tU«WB> tor exchange before
Xmas - CenuNwe Mercn. Baner-
m - B Brds. S*i nuns. New
Kitchen. Cvm 4 CeUnr.
£165.000. Tel: 01 496 0196.

NAmW - Rtvcreue MaMMm.
S dm mat to n e lie, Private sale.
£92.000 Tet Ol 265 1640

Passat a Kan nw 1 M-nenvu
g a t ne ii m 1005 nMna. sa p a tc
rauo.fwtsaOnorwmo GieaReedter
1 >«r. fun GCH. San guano. ns* Wee.

01 730 9253

HAMPSTEAD &
HIGHGATE

FnemJty 3 dodde bedroom
Vicurai ware house,
bathroom. 2 recetoons. v
large in letctKn. upson ano
dwnstws taiets, G/CH.
tame mam gaidea dose to
nvH. park and transport
El n.000.

Tel 01-858 6585.

uuwwrnrbTii we. Luxury

bedroom). 3 bathroom*, luxury
kUcban. Home never occupied.
gwiht bring pooled a broad
sMM qtdek role at dtocounted
price or £266.000. No agents,
private sale only. Tel: 01-634
8527 (day) 01-637 1092 (emu

fulham. Supabbr snnatert m
timn nfranmir ffii hi nirrsr
tlvety mod 4 bed period bouse.
S bath*. Elegant me recap. weB
ntd ku/dtattng no. V ery pretty
SSB.PHIMftHtira.tSS&OOOi
Vennona 756 9632

FRUSTRATED ?

Hampstead
Garden Suburb.

Magnificent detatebad
hoiae comprising 5/6
bedrooms, two large
reception, study, morning
room, large fitted kitchen,
double garage, full central
heating, carnage drive,
superb gardens. Freehold.
Owner must sefl.

Telephone:
01-722 6425

HAMPSTEAD* bright 1 bedroom
rial m heart or village- Recently
nefurtuahed. Loot lease.
£ 108 . 000 . TeL fw) 01-236
4540:0U0I-7940746/01-436
9568.

MAMKTEAD HW3 2 bedroom
modem flat wttti garoo*.
£ 166.000 or neereet offer fbr
ouick sale. Phone 01-7063446.

HMWCATC Sndoia house sur-
roundad by trees. 4 beds. Hi dto-
mo/ ML dbrins nn. tntont reep
gge.£236D00Te£ol 724 6141

firmer unmod 4 Storey part
vac semi del Vic hs*. V close
shoos, transport. £190.000.
Douglas 6 Goraon 785 6222

EEEE

CASCADES
El 4.

Spectacular
Riverside Fiat.

2 bedrooms^ bathrooms, 1
reception, balcony. Garage.
125 yrs Lease.
£180.000.

Tal: 01 439 0684.

HOLLAND HARK. WU. Superb
1 st n 2 -bed rial. Wen appoini-
cd fully furnished Lm Let.
£Z7Bpw. Homes 231 4041

COUNTRY PROPERTY

FIMCHAMPSTCAD Exclusive 4
bed del house. •nKrylna supob
nod male poaiilon. Seriuded
gardens. NHBC. £260000 F/h.
Tel: Q754 730974.

ncanwie 4 bedroom detaCMd.
1930's house. Tatamr refur¬
bished. 2 receptions. 2 baths.
GCH. (med kitchen. Overtook*
Reading sou course. Private
rood. 3 miles HR. 26 ratna Pad¬
dington. 00)0. £196.000. Tel:
0734 471246/588967 <W).

Bmlt as a replica of an original 19tb Century listed building, not ptwiouriy occupied with aO
fittings no* ft limited. Offering 4000 iq-ft on three floon.

* 5 Bcdroopa (Master 2tPX 19' in Trogglcmro) • 4 Bsthroann f2 EiMohe) * 2 Knriwo *
Emmice HslI (21 1 XI3P) * Drawing Room (24’ X 21* with French doom to paid)

ALL

Sdf contanaJ nsff flat * Enatiec potsibte nnfunsa * DonHe gnge * Open spare for seraal cars,
alaoM syiifni, remote dremaic anry pics md gauge doon

GROUNDS EXTEND TO 5000 tq. ft
Retired to L2 Mffim

For farther dcuOi k viewing vrengamix- 01215 6114 or 0742 720353
ac 0742 368585 MOBILE Ntx 0836 638169

Jm [- */s,

FINDERS

CONCENTRATE ON YOUR BUSINESS
WHILE WE CONCENTRATE ON OURS

LET US FIND THE RIGHT OFFICE FOR YOU

TEL:01- 836 4416
FAX: 01 - 240 1556

■tAVDMCOUKTrAM W12. 6/6
bedroom, and of tarTace immiy
bouse, in good condtuon
throughout- Larne sunny kXdv
en/ dining, pood cellar, off
anew parung poeaMe. asroJJ
secluded L shaped garde". «y
at max. 1 min from Perk, in
conservation area. Were ready
to move oul- end of chain hence
£271.000. Tat Ol 7A9 1114.

SUPER SECRETARIES

WRITERS AGENT
NEEDS
SECRETARY

Musa have accurate typing and organisational
ability. An interest in Drama would be nice.
Please ring 01-823 3883.

for small fashion business
in Wl. Mornings only, non-
smoker.

Skiltegoad German, rvpmg
40wpm; Satary; £4,500.

No Agents

Telephone 01-499 5777

2ND Jobber £11.600 - Britfw and
eiunustashc secretary seven
by rmanru Servtwe cnmpw
bawd » Victoria warktno for
Hip MO o( their Management uj-
vrmnrM DIMflWn, you will

peed M be highly oegaaMd ml

wnrienir Fast bccurnto
tkUb requested. Call Tit* WotH
Shop OH 01-409 1232.

ART Deaton rwutrt napoc uO ito
vtmuy far typtao and wsnu
omreduhea. salary iwentob.
good re f erences ro nwi a i Tac
01-493 6781.

ntKMTyiiLLr writ spoken and
wnan 7 In your outy StFLduns
asnrfitvt and can tun work M
gam 7 Good i An manmnr
dial usually only cents* wtui
l o mW tra oi c age and axpori-
enre is otnn re iwu, woridng tor
the Onttman of a mtaor US In-
tTdnwfil House WP SUBS are
required Saury uptn £13.000.
Start mid Jan. tmereated 7
piMM tolspno ito Chanotts
BmKh on 439 6021. Horen
Staton <RM Const.

I

BUCKS

NR MILTON KEYNES. New l bed
apartment in Victorian
vicarage. VOtage l oca ti o n . Easy
access stn A cily centre, pram
£69.960. Tel 10908) 260002.

COTSWOLDS

SOUTH OF THE

STANDARD 6e»rer7 Our coenL a
motor UK PLC. bears one or the

wood's mad famous names. A
senior level pa openttm has
arbtn, woridng won taatr gra-
oariom- rutfi-gowtred Director
of AcguMOona. Pawiwep.
tad with nance so »t>oicen
French venrbsettd. a fall ro dal
Mary and many I n tnr mitlnn ai
budnero mmtinos require the
' very new or your expectance
and organising ant. A good
education, sotoe. confidence
and mgh troreaBiooal standards

MemrweotBer Advtg A
SeJrcBcm- wi-wv w-u-

CHELSEA &
KENSINGTON

s

-Qrade ll. neutiy
converted bam. 4/6 bed,
3 bath. SracpM Iga luxury
Ml utitay, S acre in
beautiful setting.
Offers over
£400,000.
(0242) 574140.

DEVON & CORNWALL

2 luxury interior designed
apartments.

1st 2 receptions, 3
bedrooms, 2 baths,
kitchen, 30ft enclosed
balcony with spectacular
saa views.
£238,750

2nd; 23x23 lounge/efinar. 2
beds. 2 baths, Kitchen,
balcony over-looking
pleasure gardens.
£178,950

Both apartments include
fully fitted German
kitchens, an-suite jacuzzl
bathrooms, quatity curtains
and carpets, Bftand under
ground parking.

Tefc(0202) 22918 or
21594 for details

DREVv’.E'AT'T ■ NE ATE

atINBURY ON 1HAMD. Spa¬
cious character Meted bre.
Favoured Avenue dw
Truunes. Ooeandlnt ncrom. 5
bed*. 4 recaps, huge felt, sen UUL
magnificent 200* gdn. Cony
poaesUoo- £340.000. D Light
& Co 0932 786262

MIDLANDS

COSr COUNTRY
COTTAGE.
Derbyshire.

Cottage mM-tarraca of B.
Qutot location hi market
town of Heanor. 4 Ootiita
betkooms, taunga. Mtchen
widi gas coolur. frtdga and
washing machine to
remain, ntivoom with
shower. Double Qtazsd.
Carpets and curtains to
remain. GCH. Close to
recreation ground and
American Adventure
toaura compbw-5 nuns to
shops. No garden. 10 notes

DORCHESTER
(5 miles)

Liste d 30C yr dri m ating
ODtoge set m area ot ouisnntfing
natual beany. 3 bsteoams, 2
reaporn. mgtoccte besnsd
etc. Lge atdttn, waUed garden,
garage. £175,000.

DUMMSI- By Uro mo. Larea 6a>
tached bumpdow MoutmiOy d»
stanod. On around* or W acre.
£144.960. T«MOM61 266889.
No chain.

EAST ANGLIA

lATtlXKA - Atherton straaL
Eitevpaonal wound Door mM-
MXMOC. 2 double bedroom,
may fltud kfflOMn. betbroam.
huge imne room with 2 rote or
French windows leading onto
pretty private garden. Inna
More. £120000. Ten OI-2B6
2319 am phono.

BATTERSEA PAM - Luxury m-
icd 2 bedroom not tn outet man-
won block rioro to park. RJt.
and sranSwine bam. Eaay
parUng u» nmtmj £129.000.
Td 01 607 6367. DavOnM.

■KSSXCMi

Urge Victorian residence.
Four receptions. 5 bedrooms,
1 luxury en-suta with
jaccuzzL ramly bathroom,
beautiful large german
Idtotien, 1 bedroom self
contafnad 8aL excetiant
decorative order 1 acre land,
Peterborough 20 minutes,
Kras Cross by train
55 minutes.
£285,000.

Tel (077588) 559.

HADLEY WOOD 6 damn* bed. 3
rccco. Victorian romt narojro-
non 26imn9toCsy.£34aDOO
ano. Td. 01-440 9605.

LUXURY 4 bedroom home. 2

GNtuded pkx In popular vtuogr
dOM to Northampton, with

tastefully
mode r n is e d country cottage
attuned m ow Lake Dwrtcz
Nauoaal Park. Otters over
£46600. contact w c E a
0667 5149/499B ltir Dtts and
many attar t afcd o n d
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 1983

COUNTRY PROPERTY

Distinguished
S us sex Homes

Win. three or four spacious bedrooms, two to three
large reception rooms, one or two bathrooms, a beautifully -
fitted kitchen, a cloakroom, garages and large gardens.

Excellent locations at Heathfield (4 Bedroom homes
from £149,950) and Littlehampton (3 Bedrooms from
£96,950).

Call for a colour brochure on
(040381) 3988 or visit the show
centres at either:

The Spinneys, Green Lane, Hcaihfidd,

East Sussex Tel: (04352)5260
(open 10-5 every day except Wednesday)
or Duwusview, Off Peregrine Road,

Littlehampton, West Sussex
Tel: (0903) 730787 (open every day 10*5)

Fairclough Homes

rvntnmv rvanm ^ - .

SOUTHEAST

Prim and ayfesvEsripa lom&fcify.

Your invitation to View ...

Ike Mattings, H adlow, Kent
...but only if you are lucky
enough to be over 50!

3

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Luxury Showflat &
Private Health Clubl

* 1.2 & 3 bedroom
apartments & penthouses

* High security & resident
concierge

* Choice of kitchen & carpets

loin us for wine mi a teste of the good life
on Saturdays and Sundays from 12 - 4pm.
Free Bottle of vine to the first IOO vfcftorsl
Appointed Agents: -4fl( maidsttone

HiHreed Estate Agents
High Street. Hadlow
Tel: 0732 850525 ■ Tonbridge

Sauna with plunge
pool, solatium, spa
bath & mini gym.

All for the exclusive
use of purchasers &
their guests

HADLOW

A26

OXFORDSHIRE

| BAWDRY. peaceful village. Ctose
new M40. sione end terrace
cottage. 2 bad. £82.500 aao.
Td: (0296) 768262 anytime.

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bungalow situated 2 mftes from
Mao mot or way and 1/a mBe
from goU dUkait#. Purpose hunt ,
open plan, detadted. 3 bed¬

rooms. lounge, dmmg room,
large hall, mihim braakfbtt

room, tmfcroota. we. unBtr

room. gch. double gtastnu. Into-

oral garage. 2 lawns and pottos.

£140000 Td (0290 711228

SURREY

OVERSEAS PROPERTY

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WtTIWOtC, brand new 2 bed.
room luxury oat Ui converted
I7cntmy nun overlooking liv¬
er way. 2 bathrooms <1 en

cnadve use or Wm corua t ex.

Quick sale, hence only
£16a 00 a TeL 0787) 760680

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room co tt age In an exclusive
raw of 6 in ABmty. Brsntmnty

rated. Paula Ron m. Probably

(he flnesi she in Surrey. Trout

stream nminaat the fttuil door.

£105.000 FH. 003641 2804

Eves/w/Eod* 0483 810466

WALTOH-OH-THAIim. A bean-
nul detached home act in *
acre of a o dude d gro u nd s 4
recants. 20 * unchcn. many
room. 4 bads. <ae m ng roam. 2

A beaanftn home in a aumuxng
setting. Freehold. £360000.
Best Got Ol 780 9253

BRAMLEY.

GuMford 4 miles,
Waterloo 38 miss

Spacious Oaorglan styhi
detached house ffi axekistn
and quint situation near
vitaga centra. 4 bscfexMina. 2
bathrooms. 2 spacious
reception roams, eftroam,
fitted wtcftgp ten gas dx
Double gerego. Sunny part
umfladsactadadautwis.
Often) around E21o000 f/h.
WELLER EOQAR
0483898044

COttHMH 4 yr old detached house
on prime estate. 5 bedrooms. 2
bathrooms. 2 receptions. dble
oarage. bacMno an to oxnmt
Heath. £260000. £10000 re-
dnetted for 141 day
Tet 0932 06738

SCOTLAND

KNCJUTUMD. Cast iifww
Traditional ttnn&ouse. with

farm bandings and ore acres.

Eduburah 13 Mbs. Amort 19

ranes. FOr farther part am ta

•m to view apply: Gibson &

Suapson. Ch ar med S u r wa r s .

3 MafxiUe Orescent E dmiwridi

EH3 7HP. Tel: 031- 226 3397.

Surrey

Godalmisg2K miles.

Superbly appointed family house.

3 reception rooms, 5 bedrooms,

2 bathrooms, kitchen, utility room,
playroom. Garage, outbuildings, and
garoni Wanning consent to provide
self-contained apartment.

In all about 1.5 acres.

Apply: 14Curzoa Street,

London WIY 7FH.

Telephone: 01-4996291

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BANFFSHIRE SCOTLAND

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KEITH, BANFFSHIRE
TABER CHAUCH.

Telephone (85422) Z538.

COTTASC 1801
Cmtury near Bridge of Wdr.
Tel 041 423 1780

Farmho u se In lO
acres. 5 mllea Aberdeen CKy
centre. 4 Dtdrooim. 3 Bomgo.

is* by 14* luxury MW. ui.

rm. ba t Umum wuh 6' round

boss, granne otfutukunsi

with nimiung psnMW for 2

houses. Showing and nwimg

dose by. ofitrs over £ 110 . 000 .

(03681 42A094Vta and w/o.

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JOHN SALE LTD

(0896) 4842

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Cron wtm outtmiidliigs and 3
bedroom rwnuy hnosa. DonbM
giaied. central heated- dose M
village srtwol. shoo. Upset
£35.000. Tbtt 069687 28d.

SOMERSET & AVON

BATH 9 miles. Wcsttoy 0 nan-

Slone Bend-detached cottage tu

qtxtrt village. S beds. Reuuua-

wan nfiitpg

£135000. DeOBK phone
(03731 830061.

Mt mNCANrON 3 bed CM bttfllw
m i acre. Superb views over
BBCXmoro Vale. £183.000
0965 8(262 Rmeners.

SUSSEX

8KXMLL-ON-SZA SMKMttS 1SI
floor tea (rant 2 bed Oat. Balco¬
ny. £52.950. <04341 217312

MD SUUXX, 2 bad cottaoe. fUUy

rctenM. «hm coumry taca-

ttan. close transport- Sail sinale

perso n or couple. £139.980.

T«L (079181 2619 UVCS)

SW DCTACHKD - Executive

bungalow In Dteturesoue village

betwe en Bn g uun and Lewe^ 4

beds. Garage. Most sen. win re¬

duce for quick sale. £169.000-
£167.600. Tel 10273) 28248 or
<0860) 379679.

ALDWICK BAY.

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feteaswctoMtopwa
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4ti rm, lux Mcdai. 3 l*Cs A ba
bdlnra wdi brass UBtutts 5a
eft. QuaWycnjim. Garage &
omscamd oxtras.
vacant possesson
£169.95010f Qadi SUB.
SmrJUT RIUM

42 East Street, CWcbostw
TU {02431771771
V (0243) 213111

WALES

5. mWAUKKUUMl. WbrenlUl
ttnb detached praperty. deval-
M naaiuan. river ilew, 3 recep¬
tion. 9 bedroom, playroom.

large garage, gardens (tool and

rear. CW dr sac. Urge nt saa-
£60,000 TM. Panbrocke
(0645) 681469

in

town ouaurts of Caron.
£9O0aa win; incorporated into

Oats, would sell separately. Tst

109887) 817

WILTSHIRE

_ _ A ttrac t i ve

4/9 bedroom Chalet style house
with large garden. DeUahtnd
country locaaea. Quick con¬
tract exchange required.
£200.000. T*1X0960) 862808

URGHFOtfr Nr Devtrrs Pretty
200 ar old ssnU-del cott. curw-
nlent village atnouues. ouki
lane. 8 beds. ku. din. Uvtns.
bath. CH. exposed beams, inghr-
noon. Woodland odn. 2
wmim . Outbuildings, green-
house. £120.000. CSUrtOd 701.

YORKSHIRE

CONVCRTIO stone bum country
school berwsen Leeds * Harro¬
gate. i .xcom 9 . Reotan ot
£1701000. (08331 B4269T.

LOOKDM North? A personnal
house hunting and manag am sni
service. TeJ 0663 696294.

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£175,000. Freehold.

Tel: (0342)
810355/711S18S

PROPERTY TO LET
COUNTRY

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AvaHaMeIbrwinwiM £78pw
me Tel >02731 737006.

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2 bed perfod cott- Carpato^Ova
bins Tet 0843 878218/878609

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TENERIFE

Luxury freehold villas in Tenerife,
j Small seoluded development overlooking
the ocean with views across green
valleys to Mount Telde 2/3 bedrooms,
terraces, gardens and garages.
Prices from £50,000
Weekly inspection flights arranged

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& CABO ROIG

Superb range of piupe n icafl (LOOP-COftOOD. new & resale.
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inspection Bights.

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8 Station Road. Hinan,

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Tet 8229 23 2667 (24

COSTA DEL AZAHAR

(The unspoflt coast of Spain)

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ASETUR PROPERTIES

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0378-682136

PUERTO

SOTOGRANDE

Pure luxury for you...
ana your yacht.

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Imagine, if you will, sitting on your terrace, soaking up
the warm sun and sipping a cool drink Behind you. a
luxury, air conditioned, architect designed apartment of
the highest quality. In front of you, the new marina,
probably the most sophisticated and well equipped in
Europe - boats of all sizes lying dreamily at anchor,
owners and visitors alike relaxing around the restaurants
and cafes and, like you, gazing out over the harbour
towards the Puerto Sotogrande Beach Club, miles qf
uncrowded beach, which seem to stretch unbroken to
Gibraltar, just 10 miles distant.

"This is the life... ”

The New Harbour Village at Puerto Sotogrande has been
described as "the most exciting development in the South
of Spain". (The stunning Italian Style architecture has
already won an award for its fascinating colour scheme).
Whether you are looking for the perfect holiday home for
yoursdfand yourfamily, a marina berth for your yacht
or just a first class investment, you will not find better.
(For investment forecast please see diagram below).
Marina berths are available for purchase Jrom £15,000
(10 metre). All berths are supplied with water, electricity,
satellite TV, telephone and 24 hour security connections.
Yachtsmen’s facilities include showers, jacuzri, sauna
and gymnasium. Full repair, servicing and chandlery
services etc.

Of all developments on the Costa del SoL there are
literally none to match the sheer quality, style and
facilities of Puerto Sotogrande.

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Tet 01-495 3630 (24 hours).

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GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB - TENERIFE

FOR THE CONNOISSEUR

Those seeking a secure and
appreciating property investment
need look no further than Goff del
SuronthesouthcoastofTenerife.

Fashionable Golf del Sur, already
recognised as the premier leisure
development on the Canary
Islands, has attracted many
discerning buyers from the world of
sport and entertainment.
Individually styled villages are set in
over 440 acres of breathtaking
scenery and are the ultimate in
luxury and quality. From the
spaoous apartments to the
discreet charm of the luxury villas,
there are a range of styles to sun all
tastes, at prices from £30,000 to
£250.000.

The leisure facilities led by the 27
holes ot golf, chosen by the PGA
European Tour as the venue at
which to start the 1989 season,
include golf school, driving range.-
tennis with professional coaching,
squash, bowls and of course, water
sports, AH are served by the
magnificent clubhouse . and
sophisticated shopping centre built
in a classic style.

With every month's temperature
averaging over 70°, Goff del Sur is
a better way of life that has to be
experienced.

GOLF del SUR UK Sales Offices

54 NEW ROAD, SEVEN KINGS,
ILFORD ESSEX 1G3 8AT
TEL: 01-597 0948 FAX: 01-597 3219

NOTICE TO
READERS

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343491 or 01-364 4019

POOL Beawtrenv tart pnvati
vnumb. £60000.0322 92693

FRANCE

■fHTTAMY, Normandy. Aflanl«
& sm coaoL Ants. vuas. Farm
boom tram mommu
0969 76389. Ol 486 2733

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ttan. an to tf tt M . Of na M tn cm.
vntia. dc~ Fret rabilogufr on
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B uul ea na OWex. France

Pool &mnu.
10 mmutta to town ce n tra.
SrecmciSar at* vhwa
FFi .320.000. Phone Paartand
Provencal OB2a 6688
W M POOt ne 17Tb a ibm hM. 2
floors. CH. bam. iO Ha. Pta
Sate. «30600- 0296-746327

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Tontes Regions

Properties and land m
Ac^cnpc, Biiitauy
Normandy, cole D'Azur.
Pas de Calais etc.

Lyttleton

Overseas Holidays ami
Travel, Spectaibns
Internatkmal Property
Amenta and consnliaiia
TdqAaw 0905-773916

(UBSOmU Lnroe Utm storey
phis attic, tdaal coovorl boteL
flats. New roof and hmttnn
£66.000. (03651 777199.

MCI Flat ett town. 2 mens baacb.
8tps 6/6. fleram. Parking, on.
tax rental Inn or hd hooaa
£68.000 Taoi 2(73 9646.

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Aveyran. Allege
. . Props in rural Iran-

gnmoi. BartXJS 01-881 0112.

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SOU11I of France. 7D maes North

of MoKw Ble r In small viuage.

-naTocad txmM wtth small gar-

oen. mcltm, canma room. 2

bedroom, bathroom. - vanned

otnar. m good conmaoe.
130,000 Frtnch francs. Phone.
07918 2174. evenings (0444)
440CW6. office hours.

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traditional ehaK besmng m

town centre. 94 sum. Inc. balixK

nsr. Fully funs. £88.000.
Tdeonons metis 693232.

_ of France - Vendee
Chsrern prevraou. new Iwmo
on setretad sttn. modern
housed, bungatows «r flm. okt
farnmoones and property In
need of restoration and ev an (be

whether R be in town, vfllaot.
country or a esBrtdBieaoR. we
travea large sdUetton or proper—
net HHUM for your
UspsdSan. Plan aretact An-
WTOBcWb. OB mo 39 61
34 90 S3 at any tons.

XJV CEKTOWY boras otoert In
medieval vtnago. Kaut de
Caffw£ Nice airport 10 ratna.

Beautifully restored, tuning
room, drawing room both wtm

ooen fires. Kitchen, a douMe

bed. wsh en sunn batti/snower.

1 stngte/atddv seif contetmd

■tuna, roof urraea. nugnut-

cent views. £189.000. IbtToi-

736 8241. w/e (09981 831866,

GENERAL

AHMMOU Ants tram 20K Cbn-
iota 90K. All areas. Direct from
leading developer. TeL- 0077
263606 TMS UraruOaul

ance ansnu a d at Lloyd’s. TeL
1048621 70787.

ITALY j

imu varied re l e cftmi of vil-
tas. fanahouau. MM8.
castles & monaBrtea both nod
A imniod. Prices iratn £11.600.
01-731 4401 Tuscan & UtoM-

MALIA

PLAT vuta for sale. dscaBs ring
107081 680419.

CUNNY . Malta. 2 tMd rm
fummt ed ape. FreJhtrtd. 100
yds Saaeront suena. £2&9da
Fttone 0746) 348867.

PORTUGAL

KHUUL Near Fatttna. Husttc
hU farm house £36.000 ojuj.
Gaeeoy solo. Tel: evcolM 0227
462038.

SPAIN

RWm ikiRN Fines, 4 ftgB U Ac
OM awe set in i acn or Tk»

BUOrur

MARBELLA

In the heart of the 'GoUen
Mie'in Mssiss&i, across
from Puente Romano,
exdustve housing, ronfling
from 100 m* opon m enis to
400 m* penthouses with
private pools. Starting from
£476 per square meter.
Information:

Apertedo de esnaoo VO
A lcoh en da s, Madrid

Jpgjjl

Tet 3492832373

PRIMA EUROPEAN

Spariaftetng in Spain, wbB-
eslaMsftM, faitdy Ann. Ask
forourgkimick-frBe
brochure and rates chart

BenhMorhSaa. Aikanta
and Malaga.

Teh UK (0424) 210388
Spain; (96) 5643333

FRENCH ALPS

Superb Chalets and
_ Ski Apartments on
Fortes au Snleil sjatccn

£35,000^150,000

beach ^™n*™wal

S0562-BS51SI

RneMB*n BrewuMm it Ibshr fUL

ZoGM so. iiMtire land over-
feOMna aeeon ouraorta ot. .
rahtna vUtooe. we ato
TbUWa 72367 ‘ ' .

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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 1988

OVERSEAS PROPERTY

The quicker route into Switzerland

Diana Wildman
. finds opportunities
" to buy in a land

where property is
S often denied to

“v foreign purchasers

S wiss property purchasing
continues to become more
restrictive every year. At
the end of1987 the canton
of Valais voted to stop sales to
foreigners on all properties except
those that had an agreed buyer or
had already received authoriza¬
tion to sell some units to non-
Swiss. Since 1983, when per¬
manent quotas for such sales were
established, the ann ua l number of
properties licensed for safe to
foreigners has slowly diminished .
In 1986 the quota set by the
federal council was 2,000 homes.
This year it is 1,800, and for 1989-
90 it is expected to drop to 1,600.

As it happens, last Sunday a
proposal in a national referendum
to restrict sales to non-Swiss even
further was defeated.

Selling a Swiss property for a
non-Swiss is equally restrictive.
Most cantons allowing sales to
non-Swiss have imposed con¬
ditions including imposing a

purchase and then safes can be
made only to a Swiss national.

Purchasing procedures are.
however, straightforward and all
formalities can be completed in
less than two months, provided
authorization for the sate is
granted from Berne. Purchasing
costs 4.5 and 5 per cent

Property is, by definition,
expensive, the Swiss franc still
b eing o ne of the world’s strongest
currencies. You could buy a unit
in a hold, which ‘ restricts the
owner to a ma rimum of200 days'
use a year. It then reverts to the
hotel’s rental pool when not
required, thus bringing in income
that should cover aD wwnnai
outgoings. This seems a good
compromise.

Because of the restrictions over
purchasing there are now few
areas outside the mountain resorts
— and even fewer allocations in
commercial centres — so the
chance to buy into an aparthotel in
Montreux, alongside Lake Ge¬
neva, is rare. At the moment there
are two such hotels in Montreux
selling studios and suites.

Aparthotel Bonivard, to the east
of Montreux, overlooking the
Chateau de Chiflon, was built 120
years ago in typical 19th-century
heavy Gothic style. Conversion
into an aparthotel started in the
early 1980s but marketing began
in earnest only when the Bonivard
was acquired earlier this year by
Dr Christian Rey, of Rentimo SA-

There are now 76 studios and
one-, two- and three-bedroom
suites, of which 53 remain for sale,
and, because of the age of the
hotel, all units are spacious. All

Lakeside living: At Aparthotel Bonivard in Montnmx there are still 55 apartments or studios for sale.

have a kitchen, an entrance hall, a
reception area and magnificent
views of either the lake or the
mo untains

Facilities include an indoor
heated swimming pool, a sauna,
conference rooms, a restaurant, a
coffee shop and bars. Holiday
activities dose by include skiing,
water sports, tennis and golf
Every owner has his purchase
registered and prices range from
£49,000 for a studio lo £292,QQ0
for the three-bedroom penthouse
apartment. All units are fully
furnished.

Vjlleneuve Hotel, which is on the
edge of the lake itself In total
contrast to the Bonivard, the hotel
has just been completed. The units
are far more compact and the
minimum I50-day requirement to
let the hotel have use of the room
does not apply here, though in
practice the management believes
purchasers will want their rooms
rented in their absence.

F acilities at the hotel in¬
clude shops, a restaurant,
bars and an adjacent
sw imming pool complex.
All the studios are south-facing
over the lake and have a balcony
or terrace, and prices, which
depend on size and view, vary
from £75,000 to £200,000. Ad¬
jacent to the hotel are 12 two- and
three-bedroom apartments rang¬
ing from £300,000 to £495,000.

Details; The Florida Centre, 4
Gardnor Road, London NW3
1HA (01-409 0571).

Just a five-minute stroll past the
Chateau du Chiflon, Osbornes is
selling 26 studios to foreign
purchasers in the Marines de

Completion is due next spring.

This is the time of year when
thoughts turn towards skiing, and
Simon Malster, a partner in
Osbornes, the London solicitors,
finds demand high in resorts
within easy reach of Geneva
airport as purchasers can consider
weekend siding as well as using
their home for holiday weeks.

Viflars, 90 minutes from Ge¬
neva, has a number of schemes for
sale by Osbornes. This agent has
authorization to sell in apartment
blocks built chalet-style in Viflars
itself and in some of the tiny
villages linked to Viflars, either by
mountain train or telecabine. Mr
Malster is finding that a number of
the units for sale are being
reserved off-plan.

He says: “We have always
found that apartments in chalet

style buildings sell from the top
downwards and the demand for
the best units is such that clients
are now reserving them as much
as two years m advance of
completion."

One such apartment block is the
Residence Chaperon Rouge,
which consists of two chalets with
14 apartments in each. The
foundations are now being laid in
the first chalet, which is due for
completion in December 1989 and
where seven of the units have
already been sold. Four units in
the second chalet, which will not
be completed until spring 1990,
are also sold.

Prices range from £47,000 for a
studio to £196,000 for a three-
bedroom duplex and the purchase
price is payable by instalments.
Mortgages are available through a
Swiss bank for up to 70 per cent of
the purchase price repayable over
33 years. Although interest rates
are an attractive 6.5 per cent, this
is repayable in Swiss francs, and
should the pound fall against it
payments, of course, will become
more expensive.

Osbornes has just started off-
plan sales at the Residence Imper¬
ial, which will be right in the
centre of Viflars within easy
walking distance of the slti in¬
stallations. All apartments are
south-feeing and have either a
balcony or private terrace.

The prices begin at £1 10,000 for
a one-bedroom apartment,
£170,000 for two bedrooms, and
£215,000 for three bedrooms.
Completion will be in raid-1990.

For those requiring a home in
Viflars for immediate occupation.
Residence Aigfe Royal, just out¬
side the town, has two one-
bedroom apartments available
costing £85,000 and one two-
bedroom unit at £120,000. In the
centre of town is the Residence
Reves des Alpes, a small chalet-
style building divided into four
apartments, of which one two-
bedroom ground-floor home is
still for sale. There is a huge
basement area that could easily be
converted into a third bedroom, a
second bathroom and a games or

study area. The pnee is £

Finger SA, of Vtflais, is now
building seven individual chalets
in the Domaine de la Residence
area of the town on the ski area
above the town. Osbornes expects
to obtain permission to sell four of
these to foreign purchasers. The
chalets win be on three floors.
Three bedrooms will be on the top
floor, the reception area on the
ground floor with a terrace looking
towards the valley, and a base¬
ment that has natural light and
could be used as a games room, a
sauna or children's sleeping
accommodation.

Prices of these chalets vary from
£340,000 to £400,000 depending
on the location, type and derailed
finish of the chalet.

Details: Osbornes, 93 Parkway,
London SW1 7PP (01-485 8811).
A word of cantiefc Always obtain
professional advice, both tepl and
financial, before entering into an
official contract to purchase a
property overseas.

RENTALS

KNIGHTSBRIDGE

LOWNDES SQUARE

CLANCARTY ROAD,
LONDON SW6

DRAYTON GARDENS,
LONDON SW10

A mM praporikxwd famtv home, bwuttfuSy

.1 ■■IrM!^H mill ~-ra f ,■■,* II ii ■

■minor omunM wnn Mtowwii Tunnynngs
and a wduded and waft MtabMwd aanton.
2 doubia batkoonn; 1 ginglB badroom; 2
bathrooms (1 on-suttefc kteton/breaktaat

cloakroom; garden.

A qutet and thouflhtfufly ftortshed flat
in this sought after area cioae to good
shops, restaurants and public
transport 2 double bedrooms; 1
bathroom; reception/dNng area to
seat 6; kitchen with ail machines.

CO LET ONLY £35000 p.w. CO LET ONLY £325.00 p-W.
Hamptons, 134 Futeam Road, Chelsea SW10 9PY. Tel: 01-835 1444

KNIGHTSBRIDGE - Excellent location. DU bdnn,
rccep, 1 £ b, lift, porter, CH. £150 pw.

PIMLICO -Suit 3 Shams or fiunily. 2 beds, recep, k&b.
£160 pw.

BLOOMSBURY - Very central. Owners own home.
Considerable character. 2 beds, recep, k&b. £180 pw.
KENSINGTON - Mews boose. 2 beds,2rcceps + study,
k & 2b. Garden- £330 pw.

MONTAGU SQUARE - Wl. In onxfcn smart, spacious
flat with 4 beds, 3 receps, k & 2b. £495 pw.

HOIXAND PARK - Newly dec house. 3 beds, 2 xeceps, k
& blast room, 2 baths. Garden. £750 pw.

A most desirable newly modernised 1 bedrm flat
overlooking Square Gardens. 24 hour uniformed
porterage and security.

Avaainle for Long Let- £396 pw.

AtrsBshla for Long Letr- £396 pw.

LOWNDES SQUARE

Beautiful Mews House, newly modernised with off
street parking to private Road. 3 beds 2 baths, drawing
room, dining room. Sep Ctoskrm & patio. Gd for
entertaining. Furnished or unfurnished.

Amiable far fnmwsate let £750 pw.

LOWNDES SQUARE

fonoms

ate Agents

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MARBLE MCM, WT - tSOO, iH—oufaM fafartor dsstgnad On— doubt
badraora Ok. two twnm, fan* noapdotVafeim. Ufc mn and a
Tr"- nniiim now.

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Mo* won panamas. Two doubts Otdioo m a. fumkhrt M. rapdon.
Memo. AvsAtofs now.

HOLLAND PAW, Wll - CHS mo. IMbm conga in prima toaMton. Ctass
to ■ tub*. Good qutftr knmgL Two tad m oms. iwwittm. UMn
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£750 pw.

£495 pw.

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qufaitwobnaroonUfat ml ii HuWt twouBbooLBoo>odc n ,Mlcnw»*d
Srapeanoaa. noonanandad.

Contact 221 3534

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CENTRAL LONDON RENTALS

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At Plaza Estates we care about the
individual and know where to find the
specific property to suit your needsln
Central London.

JOHN SPENCER
EXECUTIVE LETTINGS
AND MANAGEMENT
Qnfiiy jnperwi wjenrfr tcqmtd m Ac Wen London an doe
. tn the Inch dnamd lor our unique scrricc. Pbaar
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KNIGHTSBRIDGE

OVMGTON SQUARE
Hugo raff eonfafntd famfy
mtttmittn jnst computed to tie
list debit, ready tor ocajMion.
4 Bods. 3 Bads
3 ftasKSfss
ZTamt

RmMnd or unfumSM. Superb
SB - b«ti oHngad main recap tah
sapnfo dwp room and ZW
sttu ram. Heritor

5uperbNew Luxury
Apartments with
stunning vinos over
Hyde FhrkTo Let

sou* ACEVTS

Keith Cardale Groves

22 femur Sw LoUa Wl* W

01-629 6604

FOR QUALITY
CENTRAL
LONDON
from

CLAPHAM

through

DOCKLANDS

FURNISHED

and

UNFURNISHED

REQENTSPAHK,NWa
DnSgtnfid mama ootuen in
•xcabntoomtoton. OouUe
racapMon,2 b »dH>ow.2-
bathraom. supar kflehan.
targe bajoony, gangs.
E3S0 p.w.

IB; 0M227t01
OOLPmS QRBEN, NW11
EmuMMyfuniWwd2
bodroom pph flat. Ntchan
•oAipaa to tho Mghstt
stKiamd. 2 bathrooms, 1
recspfcsi, garage,
communal gaedam.

moopjw.

TEL: 01-340 2S00
HOLLAND mWK,W11
Spacious atyttah atudtoflat
wWiprattygardan
axcoBBrtfc lonfid In quiat
raaWanflat atrasc, dma Km
C antrdl Una and shops.
Sofatoed, 2 recaptions, LL

U|wlu|k tllLll lIl Ifll ,~|

lorcnon, ottuirouTn.

MSB par. sag.

TEL: Ot-727 7227

OVERLOOKING HYDE PARK W2

; A wonderfully large family flat, newly modernised, in
fully portarad bkxx. 6 bedrooms. 4 baths. Drawing rm.
Larae Kitchen. Lge Ent Hafl. Gd for entertaining
AvdtoUe tor bnmetSale Let £900 pw.

KVM ASSOCIATES

Contact Jeremy Tyler Teb 01-259 6188

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svs

«raraKMo nLif SftS

ST SAVfOORS
SHAD THAMES, SE1
£165 per week

Smart one bedroom
flat in convened
warehouse. Parking
and mooring.

GOING

ABROAD?

We have both corporate
and individual applicants
looking tor turnfehed/-
unfurnlshed 1-4 bed
properties in Central and
SWLondon

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A
RENTAL PROPERTY IN
CENTRAL LONDON?

•We have* large satocton of property torn fenfly houses to
one bedroom ftefa. furnished and unfumighed, short and
long tots, in erary price range.

PLEASE CONTACT
MANDY POWELL OR KATE EARLE
ON 01-037 9684

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a tads. ZttfH n ■ndli.m
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REDAN STHST W14

Owning tar fa»M 2 tat »
twit. Ml VIKA,

pdatiw. E32 S|uk

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BOOR*.

PROSPECT PUCE
WAPPING, El
£150 per week

Homed/ 1st floor flat
furnished to live in
around a garden square
with parking.

351 7767/352 7385
Buchanans

B14M5N1

[Philip ,
Andrews

■ acton/ ■

6UHNERSBURY

Fufly furnished house
3 beds, 2 receptions,

01-436 5991

garden and garage,
situated in lovley free

LANDLORDS

lined street, 4 minutes
Acton Town line tube.
£975 pem, 6 months
company let

Rental

Specialists

Little Venice
Maida Vale
St Johns Wood

QOEENSGATE SW7
1 BED

(15 x 15), Bi suite bath,
2nd floor flat with lift,
large reception,
overlooking Museum
Gardens. Fully equipped
and furrashed Minutes
walk Hyde Park &
Harorfe.

VALUE 01486 5991.

D’ABIME-RTAH LTD.

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kmiry Iiouhs and ItaK

MAIDA VALE
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01-7471238
TTw Prol MitaW
MmaoeawrCdrapsoy. I

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PUTNKY SW15 Hnkffdl
Rd 2 Bed Gda Fin 2 Bee All
MjcbC/H
£210 PW Lon* Let.
PUTNEY SW1S Bcndemcre
Rd 3 Bed Hae Lgc Gdn

£220 PW

PUTNEY SWU
Embanknem 2 Bed Fist

< orerloatonK River
Co Let £190 FW

[Philip ,
Andrews!

Quraishi

Constantine

S need
your
jroperty

NOW!

01-2447353

ForQualky FUrmshed
Propenlesin
St. John’s Wood,
RegenU Park,
Primrose! Bill,
Maids Vale, Swiss ,
Cottage and j
Hampstead
£150 pw- £1500pw

ToL- 01-992 3686.

V*#P5

01-43G 59911

01-2891692

BROOK MEWS NORTH, W2
Ctamtag mws hum wMi

cBom, vngt. tMO jwrnes. Oo M.

CLARBNX TERRACE,
REGENTS PAMt, HOT
Staatag 3rd Boar tat wlh sapnb
riewi owr RMMb PtaRmp,
Wtt 2 beds, 2 ttatt «5D (w
Ea 9 .C 0 M.

BICKEfWAU. STREET, WT!
Superb uMn of 2. 3 and 4

I—likuiLn ndM%ln ttlba

OETCODI ■pWraHH nuw n»

PTMflqtous portaWl Most Ron
EmeB5Dpwneg.CoM.

FULHAM

Annoive bouse. 3 beds.
Ur stains nn. K&B. WeS
tarn & fisted. Suit 4 to S
people. 3 miss
Hanuncranith
Rcai£220pwjmD.
Mny Mbess.
Unaampast
T* LAWSONS
5630282

& KENSINGTON SW7
HarriagBin Gds 3 Bed Fin
2 Bib ,

Co Lei £496 PW
CLAPHAM COMMON
SW4 Crescent Grv 2 Bed
Coscb Howe Prime Reed
£210 PW

Tel: 01-720 1208

CUPPERS QUAY,
LONDON E14

Setectfon of 1-2 Badraom
flats and houses In tlw .
heart of Docklands ctom
to Asda shopping and
Docklands Light RaRway
(3 mins)

£120-£150 pw week.

BOVMGDQH GOAD SW

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■Mr ehKineed m. Ifl * mMn
■n. CH0 H».

NOfiGLASMAN

& Company

imUNSMttWtl ■
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BETHNAL GREEN
Near VMorta Park. Brand
new 1 dotfSa battoomad
flat Large dry toungs

ST JOHNS
WOOD,

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voy phnni, eeotaisMe
ta£i5i M 3 bedj MBta
n an. S n r n qdfa.fata3m»en».
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POWER QUALITY
EXECUTIVE FLAT.

Spactoiallstinntodem

SbdL 2 tadraoms .2

RAy tM baftroom. Ofl-

stn^perkino-FtiadH-
Swvice can be prowiwL
E140pw.

Tab 01-fifl S4 Kl

nets ten

nd Tm*s fa e* i

•The • Property Manajtri
01 -241' 0964

OVERSEAS PROPERTY

KATHINI

GRAHAM

UMITED

Have a fufl regtetsr of
gtxxl quality houses and
flats to tot to Central
London.

From £158 pw- £24X» pw.
01 584 3285

REStlEXTIAL
lETiKSS MAIAfiBI

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niexe mxuo flat met TV.
washlDB mictrinn. ac S mbs
Bren me otn. AVBU. Dnc I3H»
to Jsn 26m. JlIOO p/w + bine.
Teh Ol 99B BTB6 sflar 7pm.

nom. Separata 8tu«L

Long L8L £350 p.«.
fncwdfng CH/fflV.
Tot 01 435 2668

popular Mention tAock. MMta
non tube/ abccn. a bwL reoap.
Ml. battu £160 PW Tfa Ol 60S

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Podcn an D1-839 6701 or tax U 4 iQ202) 22205.

01-839 2421.

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OVERSEAS

KLOSTERS/

GRISONS

NOTICE TO
READERS

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t« JKqwrtlM isyttaa

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wud Maim Qi -968 7619

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ooMcoww. iavfah etarta taeBi-
un. 2 beam .«*»*■,; ffTg?
around CTO.OOa Tat (0780)
702 827,

fini Oa» 1-3 bedroom tpu
m ibc rmnanne sto reran
near Davos with indoor pool,
pragcindapeitho m

800dm Attractive down

paymmttSfidSwui
monjages. approved fee ole
to fo n a pen

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win mS adwntamata «to»,
m.ta f aavwdwi^iwfatata;
vm tatoe paw ■ dqxml or caaar

TBttSWW BaraMtato ratoW-
vter* w«a nw RO» rrae
muHBiinn mafiWPW
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Ml $38 3296 C7 oaval.

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ay. spec inisi Orel noer sdf-
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Md. kh. bam. races, all MW
refura. £gcO pw. Beuharo A
Reeves 01-938 3322

WESTMINSTER j
CATHEDRAL

Landlords mm sadous in flow
tonxtatontRiMi/WRm.4
tW twtrntt, 2 Menoammealing
receps floofmg). Eal-ln
tt wffl ffl rattw + nOty mv
2 Mfana. kLoattnoe etc. Awl
nowto !/3yrs.rt5Dpw.
CABBAR&OASaS.

01 SB9 5401

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PROramY

LoSai aran tor oonmr Md
dSplemaHe tanania.
Caatorprotoptfafandoo:

01-838 3425

nan smbtar. 8100 PW. Ex. Tel;
01-573 3224.

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ist, Long comranv le t. 8 800
pern me- Tel <02S4> trrasea
a ay. 01-579 9006 eve.

NW LOMton. Cbefaeo 01-302
sm. Hofiand Park.01.727

tong/Steet WL 2nd/3rd Boor
rurntohaa in a touia.tw 3 bad-
ioocm <i doebfax Mtm>o room.

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enbr. 2 watoa to S ntosUta
Cioovw Inc, fmm Ol 724
1628 T_

Newly decorated. Available
bow. Co. toL JMOOpw. Tel 01-
493 6063.

C200JW eoal MBS. Td Ol 730

Iran tax 2 bed fist wtth ttft &
porter. Reception wnfa ttacony
& pretty view* aoor B gwaw a
CHOpw uduta of Central
Hamnp ast

ci mawr.awsta a-estta
menu tmany ato qo WBt
cortapn Polly lamitad

conapeo/shared Matt. SuPWde

for prot or Co irts. PhcneS M
CocMrocBon 041 942 43CT

CM C. » 8 A SW3. Superb runny
house. 2 Md. 2 botta. many-
rained odaa. CS2B $w. Drury
379 <816.

LUX 3/4 Bed n aa / nmiiwi
Lnnfl/faMrt let*. Allens 72S
6802 and 723 T735

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Fas CH/flUtiTSlW

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OVERSEAS PROF
TO LET

I AM YOU LOUKM0 to rent on
enranety Wta. iwtony oee or

CMELHA v«r mart F/F 1 Md. !
flat tn n/b Mode. Porter 4, CH
uk. Start * loco tan Jeta
from £200 • £300 pw. 664
o*«i Kerned Tamar

PUENOWLA SPAM-EW. town

tauw. a bens, toe twtio. cwuraL

To fat ubW Btt mascC MKI 88 .

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tated house. use t to oMBB war¬
den aoaara. Lv video. JeL
£126,00 pw Start/IObO Ol 370
; 0643. anyone

HUM V4UVSt Johns, Wood,
Lux s taonn flat, reom/dtatoo.
I bams. OtW. CH.TV.iaL I1R.
Dtartar. bale. Pmaldy owned,
ft9»JO pw Tab 01-386 BT24

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k-vNHES:

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luxurious lanfl/start fan.i /6

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wanted to stare a tad, a raan-

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beds, near trtoai CtoW Apart-
mews 936 9013/ gOgg-

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■non a p>i PtiewTrA. tan g *-
£36.000. Tar <0483* 712700^

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BL betL dt cot tv. Go let £280

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la mama - Luxury raw'd*
hfatad 3 bod/a pam PtaUtoM*
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oanfafta, XtofaPtotaOW
to bate less A BOir. Tbit OlO-
3460 MOMjrMl"*

EXCEPTIONAL!

PAHS II - CMtvmrtaidei reim
bararanm andnwnT .y. in
I mxury. conveniently »***•“
aMrtmcnL Telenitona
48004148 (London) 084 7288.

■AMR Wim Cbaee e M j ut
flats. A 4 Mda. Start fa
town lata. 288 1864 IT>

LA (SAMOA CUM Finuned

Stuaw apt auperU nW 4
£37.000. PVu 0481 28702_

Swiss Alps, wonderful
fiats free for sale to

foreigners. 1 or 2

bedroom. Starting
from SFR 4,Q00.-sqm.
Furor SA. Av. <fos
Alpes 38 CH
18K) Montreux.

8 /W Rim Mtnerveat vntooe
Use by Canal aa jMMl nr Mjd.
Ann un to a C2BO/WK. Tat
0981 880328.

OVERSEAS PRO?
wanted

OIY s ratal. 3 tad oat arajfwyai
MMAT atotmittl i. £200 9W
wot find Let T4Q 7880 _ .

Ws. Modem ftfa-

oab near anta. oas pw. Tat
m i in 1880

Miinniei swi. 2 baonn ran

vitm views of Over. Cota £22B ?b^d

nw. Conraa Carodn.■ ee an i far
Ooddanl A SraHti Ol 823 9798

BKMnAMI - 2 tad. MX flat ftffly
m Historic house on Riv¬
er. Reis, rtmto* d»Sntt to*.
Me. £180 PW. Td 378 1483.

no. FnraUtad sta-
lUteiMm G2009W
mm Letnno omca.

AUB. Landoa. 8W3. Ol £84
8517 TCtnc 918308 NCMLON.

HOTTSM HU- OAT* - SpscM
Md elegant 1 M diuuiu apart,
maul in aw a mbiu nsfad biato-
tno. flue period features,
communal uamens. Staraang
fadntm and tube nearby.
AlTOOOO. TS* 01-727 8088.

dank, son) stain to 5 beds, i

rggm-wammmS

tae>iiTT|^^
Cooaoe. Patmwick ChaL Td
Chetowtam qM*2> MonolZi

Bany tanmi onl y. T«fc K (07TO
78304 W 01-2358231 W1.306.

ncra ttB BU «?MMae ten
so. Ail mad nans. £128 pw. Tta
014MW 9ASH m_

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fa*-' bsdnns. Fnnt dnn. ■

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csaooo t«£ 04I-4W ta*

Tel 010 4121A63 5221
feta 45/453 213 fard>

mu *" r noperty wanned Pref. I MYrnaitt ttt Levdr 1 tad 1
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CRICKET: AS WEST INDIES BEAT AUSTRALIA TO GO TWO UP IN THE TEST SERIES, DOMESTIC ATTENTION CENTRES ON LOR D’S AND THE GENTLEMEN OF THE TCCB

Restoration of pride tops the agenda

By Alan Lee, Cricket Correspondent

As Car as the game in RnghnJ is
concerned, the main action of the winter
begins at Lord's today. Circumstances
dictate that cricket is presently pre¬
occupied more with talk than play, and
the state of the England team will both
shape and mothate mnch of the debate at
the two-day meeting of the Test and
Comity Cricket Board (TCCB).

Internationa 1 politics from which
there is no hiding place in modern
cricket, will again exert an influence, the
potentially cataclysmic meeting of the
International Cricket Conference in
January being impossible to ifpiore.
Although the United Kingdom's stance
on South African contact wifl inevitably

heghrai, firm mminiftinni ^ nn^ ^yk lni K

are rot anticipated. This meeting will
concern itself more with national issues:
the EaDare of England at Test level and

effective means of restoring pride and
power.

vir tually all the mein items on the
agenda are director indirect re fl ecti on of
the most humbling period in En g tawT s
Test history. If, as every delegate will
fiaim ) there Is a determination to
reform and revive, then a package of
sweeping changes will be bulldozed
through. For a variety of reasons, not all
of them worthy, this is unlikely to
transpire.

The crux of the matter is the
con st it uti on of the TCCB. If it was an
autonomous body of mafflliated pro¬
fessional men, things would be different.
Instead, it is made np of representatives
from the 17 counties, each of whom have
their parochial axes to grind, certain of
which could be openly detrimental to the
long-term interests of the England team.

TMs is the dflenuna facing thy

delegates. Can they, as exorted by the
TCCB riMn - mnn^ Baman Sobba Row,
leave behind their local prejudices and
think of England? Or are we to be given a
familiar fudging of the important issues,
papered over with brave words and hunt
promises?

There are welcome $tgns that some, at
least, of the major matters are at last to
be tackled in a businesslike way. The
quality, or rather the scandalous in¬
consistency, of county pitches, has been
having a serious effect on playing
standards for some years now: deg rad ing
good batsmen gnd inflating modest
bowlers.

Various punitive measures for offend¬
ing dubs will be discussed, heavy fines
included, but the likeliest resolution
appears to be a deduction of 25 points for
a rogue pitch; the umpires and a pitch
Inspector to be judge and jury.

Positive action is less imminent on the

sensitive subject of overseas players.
Ifltzstrioas voices were regularly raised
on *h»g one bo summer, Peter May and
Micky Stewart, moguls of foe England
side, lobbying against the imports’
influence while, predictably, certain of
those who have profited most from the
system were loud in support of the status
quo.

The widespread and logical objection
is to the increasing practice of chibs
regist eri ng two overseas players and
operating a rota system. This is not roly
a dubious abuse of the spirit of the
regulations but a serious disincentive to
young, home-grown players, two or three
of whom may be sacrificed to find foe
cash for foe second foreigner. The
relevant law needs urgent attention to
restrict each count y to o ne registra tion.

Changes in the county programme can
be more immediate, if the desire is there.
The four-day experiment polarized the

game’s leading figures at foe start of the
year, many players being sceptical and
many «Hminid r«tnK hostile. Brief
though the trial has been, I now know of
very lew players who would not welcome
an increase or even a monopoly of four-
day games in foe championship while
most of those in the committee rooms
who were against the idea have also
modified their stance.

There is do doubt in my mind that the
best way ahead is the bravest; turning foe
championship into an authentic com¬
petition of 16 foor-day matches, sched¬
uled so that England players are
available for all hut two or three of flam.
Once again, however, 1 sense com¬
promise in the air and expect the
reactionaries to force an extension of the

present, confusingly mixed, programme.

The longest and most heated debates
will concern personalities. The question
of selectors, their scope, power and

numbers, mast be raised following foe
resignation of May as chairman, wfeQe
the high-level campaign to declare
Graeme Hick an Englishman ahead of
his time will arose some fierce emotions.

My own views are plain. Hick was
given the bonus of a three-year cut in kb
qualification period only 12 mouths ago,
and X can see no valid reason for reducing
it further unless you count foe selfish fact
font he would make England a better ami
more attractive side. As to foe selectors.
It is high time foe old-style panel was
disbanded, foe picking of foe team given
over to a manager and captain, with two
recent players, Fletcher and Gifford
spring to mind, as retained advisees.

Although my information is that Hide
will probably be obliged to wait his turn, 1
fear, however, that selection will remain
under the influence of a traditional
c hairman, quite probably one who last
donned flannels 30 years or more ago.

Hopes fade as Kapil strikes

From Javed Akhtar, Hyderabad

India outclassed New Zealand
to win the third Test by 10
wickets and the series 2-1 with
more than a day and a half to
spare at the LaJ Bahadur sta¬
dium here yesterday. A leg-
glance boundary, his fourth four
man unbeaten 18, bySrikkanth
off Kuggeleijn took India to
victory after New Zealand had
been bowled out for 124 in their
second innings. It was India's
twelfth win against New Zea¬
land in 28 meetings and New
Zealand's lowest score in India.

Wright, the New Zealand
captain, was the last man out
when he checked an on-drive
and offered a return catch to
Shastri. His 62 included 10 fours
and came off 190 balls in just
under four hours. But as he ]
one end intact wickets
' at the other.

Resuming at 63 for three,
New Zealand needed 39 runs to
wipe out India's first-innings
lead, but soon started to lose
wickets. Greatbatch played for
the leg break to a Hirwani
flipper and was adjudged leg-
before; Blain was snapped up at
silly mid-off to give Hirwani a
second wicket in six balls.

Ayub, who had opened with
Hirwani, was rewarded for his
accuracy when Kuggeleijn was
caught at long-on, leaving New
Zealand 80 for six.

Wright and Hadlee, die two
left-handers, were then con¬
cerned in a stand which ap¬
peared to revive New Zealand.
Hadlee did not allow the slow
bowlers to dominate him, going
back to drive Hirwani for three
fours and then lofting Ayub's
off-spin way over tone-on. He
contributed 31 ofthe 38 runs for
the seventh wicket.

With the batsmen having
mastered the spinners,
Vengsarfcar called upon Kapil
Dev to provide the break¬
through: two wickets in his first
over sufficed. He bad Hadlee
slashing at one that moved
away. More taking the simplest
of catches, and with his next ball
removed Smith with a delivery

which cut back to pierce the
defence.

Wrjght played the hat-trick
ball at the start of Kapil’s next
over with a defensive push, but
when Bracewdl tried to turn
him to leg off the last ball of that
over, be missed the line and was
trapped leg-before. Kapil had
taken three wickets for one run
in two overs.

Shastri took his only wicket of
the match in his fourth over of
the morning, and New Zealand
were all out 10 minutes before
lunch, having lost their last four
wickets for just six runs.

NEW ZEALAND: First tortra 254JM J
ID SSmitfi 79).

Greattntcti 90 not out 11

Second fctrtinaa
T J FranMJn c Kspfl b Htrmra ,
:andbl

"J G Wright c and b Shastri.

A H Jones c Vengsarfcar b Ayub.

M C Sneddan Ifaw b Ayub__

M J amttMtch mwb HnMflJ.

T E BUn c Aran Lai b Mrwari _
CMKuggaiefnc Sharma b Ayub.

R j HanMcUore b KapB_

fi OS SmMh bKapfl
J Q Bracswefl Bn* b I

I tow bKapfl
EJChatflaUnotout

Extras 0b 1, w 5)

Total.

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-49, 3-60.4-

71.5-75, 6-80. 7-118,8-118,9-124.
BOWLING: Kapfl Dm 10-3-21-3; Sharma
4-0-13-0; Hirwani 23-10-43-3; Ayub2S-l2-
36-3; Shastri 33-1-10-1.

INDIA: First
81,KSrikkanth

Second innings

3S8 (M Azhanxkfln

K Sriktanth not out

iimlUMiM ..

18

o

extras (nfa 4) _ __ _

- A

Total (no wM)

_ . ^r.RJShastrt

M AzhwiKMn. Kapfl hay, tK S Mora. A
Ayub, S Sharma and N Hirwani <Sd not bat
BOWLING; ChaHMd 1-0-5-Q; Snedden 1-
0-13-0; KuggaMjn 0.1-0-4-0.

Umpires: R B Gupta and S K Ghosh.

Northants hold off

Northamptonshire will not
name a captain to follow Geoff
Cook until the new year. After a
"fruitful and constructive'’ dis¬
cussion, the dub's cricket sub¬
committee has decided to report
to the full general committee
next month before it takes any
further steps towards appointing
a successor to Cook, who re¬
signed in September after eight
seasons in charge.

Australian ambition is
swallowed up by pitch

124

Inspired captaincy: Vengsarkar celebrates as Snath is bowled first ball by Kapil Dev

In winning the second Test
match by 169 runs here yes¬
terday West Indies took a 2-0
lead in the five-match series,
and, as Border said afterwards,
it would need a “supreme
optimist” to think that Australia
will come back from that After
losing their first three batsmen
cheaply Australia did as well as
they could expea by getting to
within approximately an hour of
saving the game.

Not satisfied with an over¬
night lead of 384, Richards bad
continued the West Indies sec¬
ond innings in foe morning nnlil
Australia needed 404 to win.
This was an astonishing de¬
cision by the West Indies cap¬
tain. Off pitch and against
the West Indian bowling ut the
time available you could have
picked the best 11 batsmen in
the world to score 330 and they
would have got nowhere near.

An animated exchange be¬
tween Richards and the West
Indies manager, Clive Lloyd, on
the outfield before the start of
play suggested that this was the
point which Lloyd was
—and as a captain Lloyd hi
was never one to take a chance.

But Richards had his way,
and Hughes picked up his
thirteenth wicket of the match
(only Massie, Spofforth and
Grimmett have taken more than
flat in a Test match for Austra¬
lia) and by the time Australia
began batting they were half an
hour nearer to survival. By
lunch, though. West Indies were
already among them — and
Boon, Marsh and Vetetta were
all out, as Wood would have
been had Walsh not dropped, at
square leg, something be would
have held 99 times out of 100.

There were times, sub¬
sequently, when Australia's
hopes revived, first when Wood
and Border spent an hour
together, then when Border and
Waugh were in for an hour, and
later, after tea, when Healy and

From John Woodcock, Perth

Dodemaide batted with remark¬
ably little difficulty. Even when
these last two were parted,
Healy found another stubborn
partner in May.

In the fourth over of Austra¬
lia's innings Patterson bowled
Boon, surprising him with a ball
full of length. In the next over
Marsh was caught at short leg off
bat and pad. At 46 Yelena was
well caught at the wicket, low
down off the inside edge. It was
then West Indies' turn to start
dropping catch e s.

Wood had made a brilliant
start, first hooking; then on-
driving Marshall for four. Hook¬
ing again, at Ambrose, he mis¬
hit gently to Walsh, who took
the catch for granted and muffed
it- When, soon after lunch.
Border, then on six. survived a
chance to the spring-heeled
Logie at short leg, off a lifting
baft faro Ambrose, he drain as
though to make West Indies pay
for ft.

But it was not to be. At 93,
Richards moved Greenidge
from third slip to square leg,
halfway back to a long bound¬
ary, and Wood immediately
hooked Walsh straight to him. It
was an untimely shot by Wood,
but to have scored 133 runs in
the match, against the bowling
be freed, and with his Test
career hanging by a thread, was
a notable performance.

Border allowed himself to be
bowled by Hooper, bowling the
gentlest of cutters which had no
cut Border said thecracks in the
pitch, some of them an inch
wide, were always on the bats¬
men's minds. So they were
when, in a very simil ar situa¬
tion, Australia batted out the
last day here against England in
1986.1 fancy Australia will feel
they should have made a similar
escape yesterday.

The ease with which Healy
bdd on for 70 minutes with
Dodemaide, after Waugh had
.been caught at slip sparring

rather recklessly, only empha¬
sized this. Even May was un¬
beaten, if not unbruised, in 43
balls. A skidder accounted even¬
tually for Dodemaide, and two
bolls tint needed fending off for
Healy and Hughes. The West
Indian way bad prevailed again.

Lawson had batted in the nets
to prepare for the eventuality of
his having to “do a Cowdrey”
with an over or two left; out
when the ninth wicket fdl there
was no point in his risking a
broken finger to go with his
broken jaWjand the broken
pitch.

WEST MME& First tarings 449 (I V A
Richards 14G. A L LsflW S3. R B
Pttnrdsoo 68; M G Hughes 5 tor 130).

Second tarings

C G GreenUge few b Hughes__ 0

D L Haynes c Healy b Hughes __IDO

R B Richardson c Healy b Hughes _ 48
CL Hooperc Dodoma**bHughes - 84

•I V A Rtatwds Ibvr b Hughes.™_5

A L Logie & Hughes_30

tP J Dri* c Dodemaide to Hughes _ 9
M 0 Marshall c Nealy b DodemeWo - 23
C E L Ambrose c Wood tJ Hughas IS

C A Wash not out —__ 17

S P Patterson not out__. S

Extras (b 14. K>9, nbS),

Total (9 wMs dec)_

32

349

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-0.2-103,3-216,4-
236,5-248,8259. 7-300,8-310.9-341.

BOWLING: Hughaa 37-9-87-8;
OodemBda 24-3-lof-l; Waugto 23-1-700;
May 14-1-68-0.

it innings 39
IWaugh9l,
Sfor/g).

AUSTRALIA: First
M Wood 111. SR _

C EL Ambrose 5 for

Second innings
PC Boon b Patter so n
0 R Marsh c Louie b Marshal
M R J vaiettacOufan to Marshal

395 For 8 dec (G
DC Boon 80;

G M Wtod c Greenidge to Watsh
*AR Border b Hooper

4

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28

S RWaugnc Hooper b Patterson _ 28
A1C Dodemaide dw b Ambrose 11

flA HeatycLogia b Ambrose __52

TBAMaynouM_8

M G Hughes c Logie b Ambrose0
fi F Lawson abawnt hurt - 0

Extras (b 5. ft 4. nb 37) ,
Total-._

46

234

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-14.2-14.3-46.4-
33.5-138,6-140,7-19a 5-232.8234.
BOWLING: Marshall 12-0-60-2; Patterson
14-2-58-2: Ambrose 17-1-463; WaMi IS-
1-46-1; Hooper 5-2-5-1.

Umpires: Tftue and RBeSwcha.

VOLLEYBALL

Williams
closer
to double

By Roddy Mackenzie

The chance of Jefferson Wil¬
liams achieving a unique double
in the English game moved
closer at the weekend. Williams,
the chief instigator in Malory's
rise to prominence in the men's
game, on Saturday coached
Brixton Knights to a significant
win over Sovereign Leasing

SPORTS BOOKS

Medical monument that will
bridge a gap in knowledge

John Goodbody continues the
selection by The Times’
correspondents of the best
sports books of the year

ment of sports injuries'*, and
"Doping and Doping
Control*”

Sale, the women's Champions.

Brixton underlined their title
ambitions by beating Sale 13-17,
15-13, 15-13, 15-11, with Wil¬
liams having to make the diffi¬
cult choice between travelling
north with them or turning out
for Malory in the men’s first
division match against Speed¬
well Rucanor in London.

“It's the first time the fixtures
have dashed this season, but it
was a very important weekend
for Brixton and Fra pleased we
come through it,” he said.
Brixton also beat Hilton Leeds
on Sunday.

Williams believes that al¬
though the men's game is at a
more advanced level in Eng¬
land, technically Brixton and
Sale are ahead of most of the
teams in the men’s first di¬
vision. The defeat on Saturday
was Sale's second of the season,
which suggests they are vulner¬
able; Brix ton's only league de¬
feat has been by Britannia.

Malory, meanwhile, took five
sets to dispose of Speedwell,
although they won the final set
15-2. and Time Out Spark
typified what has been a
frustrating season so far by
beating Polonia on Saturday,
15-13. 5-15, 15-9, 10-15, 15-8,
but then losing to Liverpool
City on Sunday, 15-11, 8-15,9-
13. 1I-IS, to leave the men's
title race wide open.

In Scotland, Kyle, the wom¬
en's champions, suffered their
first defeat of the domestic
season when they lost in straight

sets to Provincial Insurance, 15-
3.15-12,15-11. Provincial how¬
ever, have only a remote chance
the

of winning the league, but it
rives Glasgow Banner-man, who
beat Scottish Farm 15-5, 1S-4,
15-12 on Saturday, an advan¬
tage at the half-way stage-
Shetia Dunnet, the Scottish
international who joined
Provincial from Scottish Farm
during the dose season, said:
“Earlier in the season our
players were going straight
home after matches and not
talking to each other about the
game; team spirit was low. But
we had a meeting a fortnight ago
and now we're starting to play as
a team.

. “Our chances of winning the
league would appear to be gone
after losing four matches, but
Saturday's win gives us con-

ucc for

fidence for the Scottish Cup.”

The Olympic Book of Sports
Medicine is a monument.
Amid a welter of confusing
publications, it stands out as a
dear yet detailed examination
of the subject by more than 50
distinguished international
figures.

Despite its cost, the book is
a valuable investment for
anyone involved with sports
medicine or the training of
serious competitors. The au¬
thors write on their particular
field of specialization so that
the reader obtains uniform
insight over the whole field.

The volume is intended as
the start of the International
Olympic Committee’s am¬
bition to produce a standard
series entitled The Encyclo¬
paedia of Sports Medicine.

Future volumes will con¬
centrate on specialized sub¬
jects and record the latest
research, whereas this book is
more wide-ranging, en¬
compassing sections on “The
impact of regular training on
human biological systems”,
“The prevention and manage-

The object of the book is to
make available to everyone an
indispensable reference work.
In his introduction, Juan
Antonio Samaranch, the IOC
President, says that one of the
greatest dangers in sport is of a
division between the indus¬
trialized countries and the
rest, between those who have
the resources to carry out
highly specialized and costly
research and the less
fortunate.

This book will at least aid
the spread of knowledge,
largely acquired in developed
countries, throughout the rest
ofthe world.

These developed countries
may have the advantage of
scientific knowledge in sport
but some also have outstand¬
ing problems of crowd trou¬
ble, which is less
commonplace in most Third
World countries.

This year, the book. The
Roots of Football Hooligan-
ism, is a valuable addition to
knowledge about the subject
in Britain, where it remains
more overtly organized than
in other European nations.

What the book by three
sociologists, who are the direc¬
tors of the Sir Norman Chester
Centre at Leicester Univer¬
sity, records is the prevalence
of hooliganism in Britain be¬
fore the First World War, even
if it did not then get the
exposure in the media it now
receives. Hooliganism is what
Eric Dunning, one of the
authors, neatly describes as “a
developing phenomenon over
time”.

The authors warn that
hooliganism is inevitably
present in a society which
regularly has a relatively
impoverished underclass. Un¬
less there is greater equality,
then “the cycle of violence we
have witnessed in recent years
could well continue its un¬
controlled growth, swelling to
even more serious propor¬
tions. We dd not pretend to be
optimistic on this score”.

* The Olympic Book of Sports
Medicine, The International
Olympic Committee (Black-
well Scientific Publications,
£39.50)

* The Roots of Football Hooli¬
ganism, Eric Dunning, Patrick
Murphy and John Williams
(Routledge and Kegan Paul,
£11.95)

YACHTING

Skills are
brought
to the fore

WEIGHTLIFTING

Taking steroids was a
‘part of training’

Canberra (Reuter)
Weightiifters at the Australian
Institute of Sport (A1S) were
pressured to like anabolic ste¬
roids and other banned drugs or
risk losing their scholarships, a
Senate inquiry was told here on
Tuesday.

The former Australian
weightiifters, Paul Clark and
Stan Ham besis, told the inquiry
that the AIS weigh [lifting coach,
Lyn Jones, said they would lose
their places at the institute if
they did not perform up to
standard.

“At the AIS it was made
obvious it wasa part or training
to take these drugs. The only
way to reach the set levels of
performance ... was to take
drugs,” Hambesis told a Senate
environment, recreation and
arts committee inquiry into the
use of drugs in sport

Clark, aged 26, and Hambesis,
aged 28, alleged that Jones set
performance targets that were
impossible to reach without the

aid of illegal drugs. The pair said
they had smuggled banned
drugs into Australia for Jones
and been given tablets and
injections of drugs — including
anabolic steroids — by him
while they trained under him
between 1981 and 1984.

'They said they still suffered
side effects from the drugs after
taking, at times, more than 350
steroid tablets a week for as long
as 12 weeks at a time.

Gael Martin, who won two
medals at the 1986
imonwealth Games but was
banned in 1981 for 18 months
for taking steroids, claimed 30
per cent of trade and field
athletes at the AIS were taking
steroids when she was a scholar¬
ship holder there in 1985.

“Cftrtainly pretty serious
allegations have been made and
we basically want to see what
can be done to dean up our act
in Australia,” Senator John
Black, the chairman of the
inquiry.

AMERICAN

FOOTBALL

Rams 9 hopes
revive as
poor run ends

The Los Angeles Rams ended a
four-game sequence of defeats
by beating the Chicago Bears 23-
3 on Monday night Hie result
reduced the Bears’ advantage
over the Minnesota Vikings m
tire National Conference central
division and revived the Rams’
hopes in the west division.

Harbaugh, who started forthe
first time as the ffrfea gft
quarterback, completed only 11
of % passes for 108 yards and
two interceptions. For the
Rams, Everett completed 17 of
31 passes for 251 yards, a
touchdown and three intercep¬
tions. EUard scored a touch¬
down in the third quarter
Bell went over for another in the
fourth.

Chicago are now only one
game ahead ofthe Vikings. The
Rams move to within care game
of tire New Orleans Saints ami
the San Frandsco 49en.

—Ten ofthe
world’s feruling skippers, most
of them veterans of the 1987
America’s Cup campaign here,
take to the Indian Ocean today
in what promises to be the
closest match-racing ever.

A class of identical yachts has
been created for the first world
match-racing championship to
ensure only the abilities of the
skippers and their crew are
tested. The America’s Cup has
become a bank: of technology
and design, at times making
sailing skills secondary to
machinery.

Peter Gilmour, tire Fremantle
yachtsman, is favourite for the
event, having won four of the
eight qualifying match-racing
regattas. “This regatta Is very
open and the world’s best are
Irene,” Gilmour said. “We have
to be in reasonable shape to win.
It’s just a case of keeping ft
together on the race course.”

Gilmour was tactician aboard
Kookaburra in, which foiled to
retain the America’s Cup against
Dennis Conner, of the United
States, aboard Stars and Stripes.
Conner in September retained
the trophy against a controver¬
sial challenge from New
Zealand.

The New Zealand designer,
Bruce Farr, the creator of the
1 32-foot yacht whose owners are
disputing Conner’s victory, has
shaped ten 12-metre yachts for
the Remantle match races.

Gilmour frees tough com¬
petition to retain his lead in
world match-racing. Chris
Dickson, of New Zealand, is
second and would take over as
the world No. 1 with a win in
Fremantle to avenge his own
loss to Conner in 1987.

Americans also feature
strongly with Peter Isfer, a
member of Conner’s crew, and
the former America II tactician,
John BniraikLoompeting along
with Bill Lynn.

. Rod Davis, an expatriot
American now sailing for lire
New Zealand America's Cup
syndicate head, Michael Fay,
returns to the scene of bis in¬
filled Eagle 1987 ebaflenge.

Eddie Ward-Owen, of Britain,
a veteran of the White Crusader
challenge in 1987, trill race
again as will Tim Law, the
brother of the White Crusader
hefansman, Chris Law.

Bertrand Pace, of France, tire
ninth skipper, is familiar with
the waters, ha vingcrewed on the
ambitious French Kiss team in
the challenger elimination series
for the 1987 Cup. Skip
Lissiman, who h eads Alan
Bond’s proposed challenge to
regain the America's Cup in
1991, is tire other Australian
who will line up for the event,
organized by the former Cup
bolder, the Royal Perth Yacht
Club.

Friends gather to honour a
journalist of the old school

In n age of relentless progress
for newspapers, when computers
and tape recorders abound and
when Fleet Street shifts to
Docklands, at least oue man
remains-doggedly and detigbt-
faUy unchanged.

RegHayter was 75 oa Sun¬
day. He would have, knowing
the man, allowed himself a drink
or two with his fondly to toast
the occasion but Monday would
have brought h us teess as usaaL
Grey suited, white shirted, be
marches up the 55 steps to his
office before 9axL, grabs the
bundle of post front Ms pigeon
hole and then attacks his
stubbornly pre se rved antique
typewriter to consign a hundred

weekend ideas to paper.

The phone rings incessantly,
answered gruffly before the
basmess tone mid unimpaired
enthusiasm takes over. After 24
years fronting his own sports
reporting agency, Reg treats
each day like kb first Lach-
time may see him in a favoured
bar, bat the motives are seldom
purely sodaL The longer the
lunch, the more business he is

t u

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Hayten the living image of an oki-fashioued newspaperman

: A

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fattest red pocket book.
Reg might leave the office
soon after six but rarely to go

home. Duty calls. If he Is not

meeting one of the many sport¬

ing personalities to whom he is
nursemaid and as

much as manager, or one of the

spots editors to whom he is the
perennial port in a storm, he is

"y to take oat some of the

and prove he is human after
alL

1 recall my interview before

joining Keg. He seemed to me to
be the living image of an old
fashioned newspaper man,
which he is, and quite awe¬
somely intimidating, which he is
not. If he were, then almost 70 of
the men who hare passed
through the Hayters factory
would not hare been in a
gathering of 150 last Thursday
to celebrate Reg's birthday.
They came because the ««■ is
najqne and because so many,
myself included, owe him

mnch.

so

Reg has been rep or tin g „

all his working fife. He _

innumerable friends and, to my

certain knowledge, not a single
enemy. They came from all
walks of sport and journalism oa
Thursday — legends such as
Compton, Trueman. Botham,
D ■Oliveira and Henry Cooper’
right down to the most recent
graduate from his a ni versity of
reporting.

Las* week. Surrey made Res
an honorary life member at the
Oral, an honour which touched
a “sa visibly. If that was a hint of
something to do in his dotage,
however, banish the tfeWSfaL
“Retirement,’’ scoffed Reg, “fa
only for eld people.”

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prove too strong for t0 London
rivals in Catterick chase

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With Pacifiste, Whats What,
Fredcoteri, Candy Cone and
The Wilk all standing their
ground for the Charles
Vickery Memorial Cup - at
Catterick today, visitors to the
north Yorkshire trade are
assured of a fine steeplechase.
Four of the quintet have won
over course and distance,
Fredcoteri being the
exception.

My own preference is for
Pacifisie, from Monica
Dickinson's local stable, al¬
though 1 confess to being
sorely afraid of The Wilk, who
was beaten only a head and
half a length.by The Langholm
Dyer and Proud Pilgrim in
that memorable finish to the
WL and Hector Christie Me¬
morial Trophy at the last
meeting on the course nine
days ago.

Pacifists gets my vote,
though, because he looked in
such commanding form at Ayr
18 days ago when he beat Sir
Jest and David’s Treasure on
his seasonal debut

Whats What, when runner-
up to Stay On Tracks, and
Candy Cone, when second to
Battlefield Band, also shaped
nicely first lime out without
quite managing to create the
same excellent impression
that Padfiste had done.

Fredcoteri, who finished
third to Aden Apollo and
Raise An Argument on the
same programme at Ayr is
nothing if not versatile: How*
ever, it remains my conten¬
tion that he is better over

By Mandarin (Michael P hillips )

hurdles than he is over fences
and. that he should not be
capable of beating Padfiste
who is four years his younger
and now approaching his
prime.

Fatu Hiva and Pfereffiaat
are two interesting recruits
from the world of Flat racing,
who make their jumping de¬
buts in the two divisions of the
Streetiam Novices 1 Hurdle.

While I doubt Fatu Hiva’s

Monica Dickinson: saddles
Padfiste at Catterick' (130)

ability to beat the impressive
Market Rasen winner Yaheeb
in the first division, I will not
be at all surprised if FersUlant,
who changed hands for 30,000
guineas in the autumn, suc¬
ceeds in capturing the second
division in the hands of
Graham McCourL
The Bobby Faulkner Me¬
morial Challenge Trophy is
probably best left to
Hockmarthi, who ran with
such promise in the race won

Powell steps in for
Pegwell Bay ride

Brendan Powell has come in for
the plum ride on Pegwell Bay as
the Tim Forster-trained seven-
year-old attempts to extend his
unbeaten run this season to
three in Saturday's £25,000 A F
Budge Gold Cup at
Cheltenham.

A spokesman for the
Letcombe Bassett stable said
yesterday: “Pegwell Bay is nor¬
mally Carl Ueweflyn's ride but
he's still injured. Peter
Scudamore, who rode him in
the Mackeson. is not available
and Luke Harvey will be riding
at Towcester. So we've booked
Brendan Powell.”

Having won the first two big
handicap chases of the season
on PegweJJ Bay and Strands Of
Gold (Hennessy Gold Cup).
Scudamore will attempt to com¬
plete the treble on Beau Ranger,
winner of the corresponding
race in 19S4 and of last year’s
Mackeson Gold Cup.

A strong northern challenge
will be led by Jimmy Fitz¬
gerald's pair, Tiddtc Boo and
Comeragh King, with stable
jockey Mark Dwyer electing to
ride the latter and Richard
Dunwoody booked to partner
Tickite Boo.

On his seasonal debut at
Haydock, Tickite Boo finished
tailed off over three miles
behind Beau Ranger but the
Malton-trained eight-year-old is
entitled to beat the top weight

By Phil McLennan

on the form of last season's
Mackeson. vitae be finished a
15-length third and is now 251b
better off.

Another probable Yorkshire
raider is Raise An Argument but
Monica Dickinson wants the
ground “good to soft or softer”
for her nine-year-old, a beaten
odds-on favourite at Ayr last
time.

“They never went a gallop at
Ayr and be needs a fester pace,
which he's sure to get at
Cheltenham," Mrs Dickinson
sakl “Ronnie Beggan will ride if
the ground is right.”

Arthur Stephenson has de¬
clared both Stay On Trades and
Viflierstown with the former
more likely to make the trip
south. _

Besides Beau Ranger, two
other previous winners of the
race figure among the 16 five-
day declarations. They are Ore¬
gon Trail (1986) and last year's
winner. Bishops Yam.

Corals make Beau Ranger 9-2
favourite to complete a Sat¬
urday big-race treble for Martin

by Nohalmdun on the same
course last month.

At Huntingdon, Charlie
Brooks and Peter Scudamore
have an excellent chance of
capturing the EBF Novices*
Hurdle Qualifier with Espy.

For time may well show feat
he was attempting the impos¬
sible at Ascot on his last
outing when he failed by three
lengths to give 81b to
Labtpour.

Both before and since,
Lalhpour has performed with
the utmost credit in defeat at
Newbury, first when he was
beaten a length by Deckled
and more recently when he
was beaten three-quarters of a
length by Cruising Altitude,
who is refuted to be Oliver
Sherwood’s best novice.

While Dis Train, Duke De
Veudome and Remittance
Man are all horses who caught
the eye when winning their
bumper last season, I wall be
surprised if they are yet up to
beating Espy, even at a dif¬
ference of IOJb.

Otherwise it should pay to
follow Richard Rowe riding
Staghound (2.15) and Hamper
(3.15) for Josh Gifford.

Staghound, my selection for
foe Growiand Novices' Chase,
has already won twice over
course and distance this sea¬
son while Hamper, who con¬
tests foe Ladbroke Handicap
Hurdle, shaped like a certain
future winner when third be-'
hind Sheer Nectar and Hope
Diamond in a similar race at
Worcester three weeks ago.

Barons run
extended
by Seagram

trainer David Bar¬
kis excellent re-
of saccess when
to win the
Hotly Handicap Chase at
Leicester yesterday, his ninth
womer in eight days.

The Princess Royal, riding

Canon Class, finished last of the
five raaners to complete the

cent ran

meni and WolfOfBadcnoch are
coupled on the 6-1 marie with
foe Irish raider quoted “with a
run” as John Mulhern has also
declared his improving seven-
year-old for the George Stevens
Handicap Chase the same
afternoon.

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“Her mount very nearly
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was end the of the story. It would
have been impossible for the
Princess to get him back up
there,” pH f»nnn Class’s
trainer, David Nicholson.

Seagram pegged back long¬
time leader On The Twist three
fences from home and went on to
win by four lengths and a neck,
from' Numerate and Quiet FalL
Jenny Pitman brought off a
64*1 double with Crumpet Delite
and Mamma Bay, both ridden
by her son, Mark, and tackling
fences for foe first tune, in foe
two divisions of foe Christmas
Tree Novices’ Chase.

Crumpet Delite woo foe first
division by 12 lm^fos far Dorset
owner Kay Burcheahoagh, who
is looking after the 1984
Cheltenham Gold Cap winner
Burroagh HOI Lad in his
retirement.

“fin a very privileged per¬
son,** Mrs Birchen hoagfa said.
“Jenny has let me have
Borough Hill Lad to hunt with
foe Sooth Dorset. He is doing
splendidly, foe difficulty haring
been to try to stew him down.**
fat a three-way photo finish to
foe second division Mamora Bay
beat foe 13-8 on favourite Rebel
Song by a head with Ibn Majed
only a neck away thin).

Paradise Beach landed a gam¬
ble from 25-1 to 10-1 in foe
Mistletoe Novices* Hurdle, a
race in which Steve Smith
Ecdes suffered an eye injury
which meant missing the rest of
his booked rides.

Serifo Ecdes's mount. Ele¬
gant Stranger, slipped on laud¬
ing at foe last, with h» head
coming up sharply* *®s head
op and knocked my whip
straight through my goggles into
my eye.” said the Newmarket
rider, whose right eye was badly
bruise d .

Results from yesterday’s two meetings

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pfecepofc £7330.

Same London betting shops win
be switched on to Satellite
Information Services (SIS) next
Monday but punters in other
areas of foe capital win have to
wait until January.

SIS chief executive Chris¬
topher Stoddart said yesterday;
“In terms of geographical scale.

Young jockey’s bravery averts injury

Young Irish jockey Tory Leech
was hailed a hero at Fontwell

volume of outlets and complexity
of instafiation^ London is b j far
the biggest switch-on.

“The vast majority of shops
will be switched os before
Christinas but any shops with
particularly intractable installa¬
tion problems will be dealt with
hi January.”

Park yesterday even though his
three mounts fell, pulled up and
finished almost lasL

Leech, aged 21, dashed to the
help of fellow rider Paul Holley,
who was pinned under Ayad
after taking a crashing last-fence
fall when challenging eventual
winner Wingerts in foe Coomcs
Selling Chase.

Leech, a conditional jockey
attached to the Winchester yard
of Hany Willis, was making his
way back to the weighing room,
having fallen earlier in foe race
from Wolver Plume.

Seeing Holley's plight. Leech
raced to the scene and dived on

Ayad to restrain him as the
horse was thrashing about and
kicking his legs with Holley
unable to break free.

“It was important lo keep
Ayad still, otherwise be could
have given Paul serious inju¬
ries,'' said Leech, who was
patted on foe back with shouts
of “well dime, lad” from
racegoers.

Holley was fit enough to ride
later in the afternoon, and the
horse was also unscathed-

The runaway triumph of Grey
Salute in the Coomes Handicap
Hurdle gave trainer John Jen¬
kins special satisfecuon.

The Roysion trainer picked
up this prize last year with

Souihemair but foe horse was
disqualified last month at a
Jockey Club inquiry for mysteri¬
ously jailing a dope tesL

Jenkins was confident the
grey would win on this occasion
and said: “Declan Murphy came
down 10 my place to gallop him
last week and he went really
well, so we were very hopeful"

Murphy, gaining his first win¬
ner for the yard, unleashed his
challenge approaching the last
flight mid the 7-1 shot came
away to beat Ryde Again tv
eight lengths.

Shanbally Boy. David Mur-
ray-Smjihs new recruit from
Ireland, enjoyed a perfect in¬
troduction in the Coomes Se¬

nior Citizens Novices’ Chase,
the 8-1 1 favourite striding home
30 lengths dear without break¬
ing sweat. He had been left with
a clear advantage when Robert
Henry unseated his rider at foe
sixteenth.

Murray-Smith revealed plans
for two of his better known
inmates. Welsh National con¬
tender Aquilifer runs at
Lingfield on Saturday, and
Course Hunter suns the long
build-up to the Amtree National
at Towcester the same day.

Trainer Gardie Grissell and
owner John Lister recorded a
9616-1 double with Breakfast
Car and Keiti. both ridden by
Hywel Davies.

HUNTINGDON

2.15 CROWLAND NOVICES CHASE (£1,722:3m) (15 runners)

Selections

By Mandarin

12.45 Fi rework William.
1.15 Fu’s Lady.

1.45 ESPY (nap).

2.15 Staghound.
Z45 Guessing.

3.15 Hamper.

Michael Seely’s selection: 1.15 FITS LADY.

Going: soft

SNttM 88

-— 97

1245 MONTAGU CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS SELLING HURDLE (£862:2m 100yd) (11
ninnare) •

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8
9

10
11

to-5062 F0ftTWAPPKIG2S(B)(j Danwer) A Moore 4-11-6_

3W FRAMC TW BANK 14 (Mss T Pi») R Curts 4-11-5__

UW04 SEARCH THE WWD 8(0 Read) C Raad 4-11-5—

POO- CHURCH STAR B3F(V)(N Buna) JBridgar 4-11-0_

PAN& GAME 146F (Mra J O'Connor) P Butar 4-11-0_

BfflSTOw MHX S4F (R Bemea) R Beromt 3-10-7_

UOO FAY’S PET 10 (DManfiBStarans 3-10-7_

032 RREWQRK WILLIAM 29 (V) (14 Rogers] G BaMng !LlO-7_
ODD OABBH14 (CSIawartQRHoKi 3-10-7.

S

TFarrat -

PPO SHBJ.VS FOLLY 19 (P Bamrick) Mra 3 Jones 3-10*7-
NAVARESOUE 44F (Mrs DHcktord/R Hocfges 3-102-

.KHbM —

Wtnrim —

_ BETTING: 7-4 Search The Wht, 5-2 Fort WapjXng, 4-1 Firework WSSam, 8-1 Frank The Bank.
10-1 Penal Game, 12-1 others.

1987i MEETING ABANDONED - FROST
FORM FORT WAPPMQ was not helped by a
risrun mtzake at the test whan a & 4 i 2 nd to
Artistic Champion war course and distanoa last
time out (ftm). Looked none too readme that day
thouem.

frank THE BANK, a winner an the level In the 1987

season, has shown Btie over hrarSes. Laet time out
finished a 33) 7tti to Manhattan Boy at Piumpton
( 2 m. good to Onto.

FIREWORK WUJAM may be good enough to taka
tMs modest affair on toe evidence erf htsTa 2 nd to
That There at Devon (2m If. good) laat time oul
NAVARESCHKL who won a WoNertiampton ( 1 m if.
good to tirm) se&ng hantUcro on the flat in October,
wouldn't have to oa anything special to make a
wtoning debut over hurdtes.

Selection- RREWORK W&UAH

1.15 LONG SUTTON HANDICAP CHASE (£1^32:2m 200yd) (12 runners)

1 2S343F- EVEWNGSONG266(I>A8) (PTownsiey)kfcaPTownNay 8 - 11 - 12 .

2 KtjPOSP- FMNESKO 272 (C^OS5 (Mrs Z Ctork) S Chratian ID-11-7_Mr Q Upton (7) _

3 113313- NOOALOTTE214(D^(EBowera)JSpewingB-11-6_OMAnnytage SB

322M2 CRADLE OF JAZZ 16 (O^F^ (K Brinen) J Old 8 - 11 -S_ SMcNett 86

21FD0-1 HrsiinvofnPJaisn.^u csp^a-n-. o,

21P232 ABBEYURAIEY9(CO.F^)(Mrs EEKNPCUkMI0-11-4_Rl

2484PS CASSX> UL18 (FAS) (Mrs E CartMrry) D Burchefl 9-10-9_

0231)43 VAGUELY APTOTIC 5 (^C0J\8) (G Hubbard) G Hubbard 6-103.
/5P6-4F THE HtUTT 8 (P) (R Ledger) R Ledger 9-10-7-

S31008 TAEGRED TO TASTE SO (D^.Q) (Mrs A Evans) DWHama 9-104).
6/84 MR RN»X£E t* (R BrentJ) (Mra S Amtytage 6 - 10-0 _

4

5

6

7

8
9

10
11

12 1-553U0 8T0NBENGEB(D/)(P Alan)D Wiisbnil-104)

Long hamfcap: Stonehenge 9-13.

BETTMft 3-1 Abbeytranay, 7-2 Fit's Lady, 4-1 Cradle Of Jazz, 6-1 NodatOOa. 8-1 Evening Song.
10-1 CessJo Li, 12-1 others.

D J Sureties (4) —

-C O'Dwyer 95

_ Mra N Ledger 90

-BPeweti 82

_____ M Bosley 84 .
-— 96

CADM NOOALOnrTE. winner of three novice
rwnm chases test term. Is beat fudged on a
21 besting of GtoWno at Haraiord fon 3f, good to
flnnL Acts on anyoolng.

CRADLE OF JAZzTtwtoe a winner tat term, has run
eradtattythis season, laat time out fhtisMng a head
2 nd to Pucka Paddy at Windsor (2m 40yd. good).

RTS LADY lookad to hava racovarad from her
orining aottMds wfian acoountog tor Poett Oay by

1.45 EBF NOVICES HURDLE {Qualifier £1,324:2m 100yd) (17 runners)

1 03-1122 ESPY 18 (D£) (RE A Bolt Ltd) C Brooks 5-11-10.

31 at Warwick ( 2 m, good to timi on her seasonal
debut where CAS 8 K>L(iL (9K> better off) finished
tafiad off in 5th placa. Cm foUow up.
ABOKYBRANEviM to force the paoe and wasjust

beaten Kl by Vutmy'E Clown at Notttntfwm ( 2 m.

Arm) last lima. Had Barter finished bTq] 3rd to

Maltisdee at TowoastBr (2mS0yd, good to firm) with

VAGUELY ARTISTIC (same terms) 13 away In 4th.
- • —: RTS LADY (dap)

2

MO- AMBER TACK 211 (Mrs A Nash) J Long 5-11-0

_RGoktetete

1224 DM TWAIN T1 (P r 9) (M Obfiortirt’) “re-l Pitman 1 - 114 ._

H PHBMn

8

13- DUKEDE VENOMS 228 (DJR {Mrs SJonae) Mrs DHalne 5-11-0 —

14- ENBORHE LA n9 5F (to (D RffMinf) G Pnflght .

—. SSraMiEcctes
MPanStt

FLEET tilHtET Argray '(m ~Bnkte*r") T.lnnra 6-11-4L. _

H Davtes

10

11

220-222 fU. DO THE JOKES 39 (R Graltern)PMiehefl 6-11-0

-DWtettter

12

13

14

15

16

0-144 JCELLY*S INSURANCE 13 (EW8(H Kofly) G Baking 4-11-0..

Petar Hobbs

TBffiCQUNT(CS8MKl«ICStogidere4-11-0

— Mra J Saunders

82

79

92

75

M ANACCBJENT19 giWbaQJTwiiafl 5-104-

17

BETTWa M Espy. 10-8 rn Do The Jokes. 02 Bronze FIneL 6-1 Dis Train, 8-1 KeB/s Insurance.
10-1 Remltnnce Man. 14-1 others.

FORM ESPY.vtonaroltwonoviMhuntiasat
rwnill Utto KBto r and Stratford this term, is
the form sataction on Ms useful 312nd to Lafepourst

Ascot ( 2 m. good to flrmL
BR0N& FWAL Hto

looked a toade one-pecad when a
13)H 3rd to Penalty Double at Kempton (tot. good to
firm) last time out

DIS TRAM, who moi a Kampton National Hunt Rat
race last term, made a promising mrtSng debut
when a 15KI4th to Wlshtoa at Newbury (2m 100yd,
goodL

the better of Duka's Whistle at Ascot (2m, |
firm) last time out
RBUTTANCE MAN makes hta hunterigdabut. Wbn
a Chatientam ( 2 m, firm) National Hunt Rat race by a
neck from How tewte o n Brnmond laat term.
SPEAKERS CORNER finished a fair 9 3rd to
Another Coral at Leicester (2m. good] last time with
AN ACCPBfT (sam e ta nna) tafed off in lift.
Selection: ESPY

Course specialists

SChrfstltet

TRAINERS

Wimars Runners

4 17

Percent

225

J Osborne

JOCKEYS

Winners

3

Rides

11

Percent

273

G Balding

11

49

22A

SSnwhEcctes

17

72

236

0 Sherwood

10

45

222

E Murphy

9

50

18.0

J Gifford

21

100

21.0

P Scudamore

7

39

17.9

N Henderson

10

48

202

R Rowe

16

93

172

J Davies

3

15

20.0

G Landau

3

22

13.8

1 43S-11F

2 500-152

3 030404

4 00F5S/U
8 30004/0

6 8P0000/

7 IhPO

8 0/U-BU6

9 P/P

10 1/23322-

11 42FFD0

12 /FFFF-0

13 P/4

14 421213-

15 0104-00

16 P-0B504

STAGHOUND 14 (CD^A (Mm C Meadows) J Gfitato 8 - 11-8 .

BfiUNI BABY 21 <Bflp Ketmey) J Sayers 7-11-1-

AL-S SON 25 p Wanw*) K hory 7-10-10_

BACKPACKER 20 (C WiB) G Enright 6-10-10..

CANADIAN KING 39 (F,Q) (8 Graham) G Graham 9-10-10.

CAS11L0RE LAD 597 (C Pika) J Long 8-10-10.__

CLASSEY BOY 6 (A Kaplan) J Spearteg y 10-10.-

GENSUL BEE 20 (Mm P Harris) P Harris 6-10-10--

KEEP it NEAT 43 (L Bowman) L Bowman 8 - 10 -ID.

_RltOw* #99

. Pettrriofaba 91

_BPowefi 87

_MPteMtt —

_ J Akatwrst —
_D Monte —

. D8kyma(7) —
— Mr AfitQgs —
_J Osborn* —

MYNAH KEY 235 (PJOFfi) (R Perkins) S Christian 7-10-10 .

POLLEN BE 2 47 (tLS) (Mrs L Drajher) Mrs S Armytago 7-1D-1D-GetAfteyt9ga 98

QUfTOPRBICE 43(G) (Lord CMisaajTForatar 7-10-10___ NOhIm 97

RICH Ra«»SE 19(1 Adair) R Curtis 9-10-10-RGoldateln 91

STREAM BRBGE231 (DfiFAP Stamp) OShenwad 7-10-10-

UMCOL13 (S) (Unicoi Sro^J Holdings Ud) S Mefior 6 - 10-10 __GLaadH —

WILLIAM CRUMP 9 fiXS) (Onarttewm Associates LM) KBUley 7-10-10_— 87

BETTING: 6-4 Staghound. 52 Sum Bridge. 5-1 Rich Remorse. 8-1 Brunt Baby. 10-1 Wttam Crump,
12-1 Mynah Kay. 16-1 others.

FMshad 612nd to Tray Fati-at Bangor (3m. good) on
t season, wdh POLLEN BEEOOto

FORM STAGHOUND bids to

treble over cause end distance. He
made an impressive re a ppearance when beating
Sana Castte 151 (firm), but subsequently suffered a
sarara bout at cabc end made hart work of
accounting for Sfcygrange oy 41 (firm). On Us ttast
start he was prominent oetora falling tour out at
Heydocktam. good ia soft).

BRUNt BABYwas web-backad and marie a
successful chasing debut at Worcester ( 2 m «l. good
to firm/, by 1 )Sl from Couture Color, and appeared to
run ts term whan beaten a to Akms Success m a
match at Kempton Qm. firm) last time.

MYNAH KEY makes chasing bow. Fa* hunOa loan.

final start last
worse off) 12 th.

STREAM BRIDGE won novice hurtle events at
Uttoxaier (3m. heavy) and Chepstow (3m, good to
sott. On the tetter occawm by 1 0Mrorn Yiramn with
UMCOL (3tt> worse off) 5!fil 4th. Is raporteatit and
has bean going well at home.
william CRUMP showed modest toon In nonce
chases last term and sent hurdkng this season.
Finished 2 KI 4th ot 13 behmd Tagm in a handicap
hurdle at Nottingham (2m 8 l. goooto Ann) last daw.
Selection: STAGHOUNO

245 BISHOPS STORTFORD NOVICES HANDICAP CHASE (£1,488; 2m 4f)(l3 runners)

1 24UF-30 MAJESTIC RING 4 (P KeHewsy) P Ktifieway B-11-1D_

2 2141-32 GUESSBtG 43 (Racegoers Ckib Owners Group) PUtchall 5-11-2.-

3 3044/21- COUNTRY CAP 332 (S) (R Townsend) R Townsend 7-11-0-

4 031-0 KATABATIC 32 (B) (R GtideO A TumM 5-10-4

5 FF 8 P 0 -U GREEN RKXX13 (Unicoi Group Hcttngs Ud) S Meta 9-10-1

6 22F-51P ABBtOYB (CLP) (R Scotl) M Ryan 9-104-

7

8
9

10
11
12
13

60FF-4Q THE OOORMAKER 41 (A Harvey Ud)TForatar 6-10-0.

0384-64 HALLO MATEY • (G Hubbard) G Hubbard 7-1M_

5440-4P REGAL SANTA 14 (DAS) (C Hume) P Butter B-10-0.

tiro Tow ns end —
I Lawranoe (7) 95

—... Q Landau —■
JMcLaugbln 94

_HI

0-224P0 THAMES TRADER 13 (to (Mrs J Seal) Mis L Clay 7-10-0 .

DPP/ ROYAL NAP 736 (W Snare) Mrs PTovmstey 6-104_

0/PP-P4 KBKTS SLAVE 34 (B)(D Petite) P Hayward 7-1G0_

■ COTSwyer te99
_ D Monte 90
90

480-PP LEAVEITOOT41 (GGregson)GGregeon3-104).

_R Guest —

J Ratoon (7) —

Long hanrticap : Aberoy 98. The Doormakar 9-6. HaSo Matey 9-6. Regal Soma 8-12. Thames Trader
8-12, Rc^al Nap 8-9. King's Steve 88 . Leave K Out 8 - 8 .

BETTING: 2-1 i_

Matey. 14-1 Oouitry Gap, i

MAJESTIC RING returns to chasing,
wasn't cBsoraceri when 7th oi 14

l 7-2 Katabatic. 6-1 The Doormakar. 8-1 Ms(estk:R*ng, 10-1 Aberoy, 12-1 HaHo

HALLO MATEY finished 2618th of 10 behtad River

Trout at Stratford ( 2 m et. good to fbm) on

pemritknate start, with LEAVE IT OUT pufiad up.

teQAL SANTA finished 22 X 1 4th of 11 behind

Relatively Easy inanovice chese at Kempton (2n 41.

good to fitm) on her pentdtimsta start.

GUE 8 SMG makes Ms chasing debut On Mast start
1 20 to Myflega (

3rd to

FORM

behind &eerMi$ Joy at
on fetes! start over hurdles.

Cafes at Leicester (&n. good).

ABEROY puled up last time but was previously
successful in a Huntingdon (3m. good to firm)
hanrfcap by 2)H tiom Ooubfe TUm. Has yet to show
he best on very soft ground.

3.15 LADBROKE HATCHCAP HURDLE (£3,036:2m 100yd) (22 runners)

finished a good 2 nd of 20 to
: MAJESTIC RMG

i (2m 41. good).

1 /64211- 8 R PERDO 281 (DlS) (R Andrews) Ms E Arxtiews 7-12-0

0 cm jw IUIBcd md] 1 tidtrrri L 11 . 1 t .

_MS Andrews

85

91

3 5M5-W JA7FTAS fi (P *) (G Cor**) N .i-ii-ll..

W HoRtohreys (4 ) 1
__PScudmore

• 99

98

__ M Lynch

•8

S3

1 mhhl untiEerniRirniURDUniui« .inMw>-ii^ .

_M Ptonan

93

_ s Smith Ecdes

99

9 1 C.irVinQ) I Bb-,A. 11.1 .

.SMcNaM

89

10 RS/40-2 STAR OF A GUNNER 18 (P.Sf (M A N Plant Ltd) R HoldW 8 - 11-1 _

.W Cote men

S3

11 310200- MA«GOLD247(D£)(MrsRHepburn)MrsSArmytage6-11-0-

12 raiM a» MfewnCA 4* (lif.o) (n Faua—») * »*mp» 5 -m .11 ....

_Gee Anoytnge

_S TUnrnr («)

86

88

umiS iWITEA(fiPAklPAni<MlUKR.kmRlAia.1h

_R Chsnmen

98

u F1Q/32B- HIGHTOWNFONTANA63F(DJ)(WghtownBtoodstocfc)RHodges7-10-7_Whvin(to

15 156005- WILTSHIRE YEOMAN 148F(DAS) (Brig A Sisson) PHaywart 8-10-7-R Guest

IK tiKMA VAMrpnMVFa3StmnrorrKnotRflraeaw7-1IL8 MtesZDevterei

93

97

86

17 20f03f3- “** (P nr («) p ur n my 7 . 1 ml .. ..

_M Bastard

Iff 0/ftffHfr- PriN PIPFR Pp~y*) 1 -•«•*>■ «-irui .

_M Ahem (4)

92

19 121(HrO """ff c rmmnti «*(ncj( i n.rtnn) 1 rwwc 7.1071

_ S McCrystel (7)

?n ^ 17.7 lUVgpyt 7im (U 11 nog tllUl

_R Goldstein

92

71 mew ei inur sac (u rvou—n AorM 0.1 on

_ D J Btrchsfl (4)

73

22 OPQfOO-O ASTRAL LADY 9 (CAS) (MS CDook) Mrs C Dock 7-10G-

-SJonete

Lor^hancEcap: Ove Up 9-12. Don P^er 9-4. Double Option 9-2. BaytinoB-1, Cosmic FBght 6-13, Astral

Lady 8 -

BETTMG: 11-4 Might Move, 4-1 Star Of A Gunner, 11-2 Jazatas, 13-2 Eurocon. 6-1 Heyfleet, Hamper,
10-1 Nap M a j estica. Sir Perdo, 12-1 Baytino. Tamatour, 14-1 WStshtie Yeoman. 16-1 others.

FORM HAMPER Is wsangarted bycotmeo-
runm Hons but was tfisappotatingtetl

However he turned in a good pei

aerfferaret

I terra.

i last time

when 313rd to She er Nectar at Worcester ( 2 m a.

ftmL with ANECE (Bto better off) 17*1 7th. and

couu impiova farther over thfe more suitable trip.

JAZETAS non a handicap hurdfe at Windsor (2m

9&toL%rifeManevternNrar30 4th rt? 1 »^5n
du Loir at Ascot ( 2 m 41. good to finn)on his seasonal
bow.

MK9HT MOVE stayed on at one pace when 41 aid to

Caftslda at Wokrar ftampt o n (Zm. good) oi ortystert
feat season. Acte on soft and Mis from Martin
Pipe's touriahlnfl yert.

HEYFLEET successful In novice events at Stratford
(2m. good to soft), Windsor (2m 30yd. sort and by a
head from Whistling Edge at Doncaster pan 150yd,
firm) test:

STAR OP A GUNNER trade a .
debut when 112nd to Barrera Lad at
30yd. good).

Sel e ct ion : HAMPER

(2m

CATTERICK BRIDGE

Selections

By Mandarin

1230 Yaheeb.

1.00 Apple Wine.
130 Paciflste.

200 Galloway Raider.
230 Rockmartin.

3.00 Persillant.

By Michael Seely

1.30 Whats What. 200 Galloway Raider.

The Times Private Handicapperis top rating: 3.00 LUCKY WEST.

Going: good

1230 STREETIAM NOVICES HURDLE RACE (Div L £680:2m) (18 runners)

1 YAHEEB 11 (M» (A Fawcett) MWEasterby 4-11-7.
BATON BOY 43F (S Poderaan) J Wafewrigni 7-11-0 -

0-60 »«CO VALDEZ 11 (LNs»tor)M Chapman 4-11^0—---

PO -0 ENCHANTED COWtT23(John BarrattAtidn) Q Oltlroyd4-11-0.

40F FLAX 0 NWOWW» 6 (Miss BBakte) A La Blond 4-11-0-

0 KKARIF 6 (Tag Design United) R Alan 4-11-0.

• ■m«.c>iniDunvillliM>AIN , nnhh>i

0 tESZKO LE NOW 14 (Dr Al MuS*nBi)NTInMer*-11-0_
54-3 PALM READER Z 6 (G Turner) W A Stephenson 4-11-0-
— — n«wi iCM*tnja«iwn Rum ma n 4-11-

54-3

640> QUEEN'S BAY LAD 221 (Fred(fie Stair) O Brennan 4-11-0.

24 SHARQflre ROYALE 11 (D GUI ft WhjBtiterM 1-0-

TR1KOENT35F (Harvey Ashworth) CBel 4-11-0-

YOUNG PAGEANT 475F (R Dods) fl Dod*4-11-0-

..^ra aM eira>n 4 4 ft Ml^. C DnnrAtil DateriUfLQ

1
2

3

4

5
8

7

8
9

10
11

12 TVAmUfWJCJW ->3rin

13 RBD-806 ALISTAIRSGIRL19 (MBS E Reed) W Raed 5-10-9-

1 * POOU-PO ANRKA 9 (D Lae) D Lae MM—r -

15 FATU WVA33F(lwtiSI Schubert) JohnRtzGaraW*-10^___—-~

18 HY1WLJLOW443F(Mr8 ASccte-Harten) Jimmy fittgarald5-l04L.

17 00 PATISIT DREAfiKH 8 (J Kofiand Fox) H Colfinjaidgs 4-10-9-

18 2SD05 PfttTTY GAYLE 19 (J Eyre) Denys Smith 8-169- -

Gar Lyons (4) «99

R Fahey (to —

<n

PMvm

_ J Mooney —
. GMcCoort —
. AMat ri g an —

LWyer —

T Heed 67

_ B Smith (7)

_G Bradley

_M Dwyer

. 8 Wood* (4)

Ml

29W3 met ■ I -9 tyi./ —• " ---— _

BETTWO: « Yaheeb. 11-2 Uszkb La Noir, 6-1 F«u «va. 12-1 Sharon's Royaie. True Gera. Palm
Raaov. 14-1 My Wteow. i 6 -i others.

1987 MEETWG ABAWIONED - FOG

1 J) JOPLIN SELLING HANDICAP HURDLE (£1,030:2m) (18 runners)

1 45-5014 ORIENTAL EXPRESS 7 (CO^,S) (A Watson) Ronald Thompson 5 - 1 2-3M Pepper 88
88 HARO NECK 83 (Mrs K Birkgtt) J Birkett S-IZG----JO-G ocm*n fr) “

--—-» • K—*—* e H 1-WtKTJ 9 »

„ M Dwyer 96

_D Nolen 91

C Denote (4>

1300 BEAU GUEST 62 (PJ=>(W S^srs)J Partes 6-12-2-

4 90SSZ APPLE WBC 9 0XF.<LS)frOTSraoi)D Chapman 11-11-12-

5 2M43R IEWKWGSGROVE7p)(PPuroel)PMontMh9-11-11-

8 08-54P* MARTWELU9ftF^)(IJobWCgCBeeverWJj U— --

7 0P00-R0 SWUTWAIWtOR 11 (Dfl)(W« Hargreaves)DMcCten7-11-7-

8 42UP/8-5 KAM KILL 44 (D3) (Brian (Xfiey) 0 Brennart 6-18-13--

9 050468 CraiOirS ROCK 50 (DJ) (Mrs HAitWn)MteS A AteonS-HM——-

10 6PF5/F LUCKY RECORD 9 (H Pickering) J Lft^t HM —----

11 KHXU3 CAPRICORH BLUE 9 (W Barker) Mr* P Barker 5-1M-

12 0000*3 TOSHEN BBT 18 (Mfa M Lanfe) D Lamb 8-10-7

13 045500- GEEBEETEEVEE 202 (Grew A/ld BtoTeteriteon) Mr* S Austin 7-ID‘S.

14 318000 DOHTY BABY 11 flV) (R waiting) R Thompson 4-10-5--

15 00/6/P PRINGLE 9 (Nonwn Park) TDormelly 9-10-5---

16 OPPP-F MONKS TIME 74 (A Forty) MTS S Austin --

17 BW- TUFTY LADY 43F(T Davis) I Campbell 4-1M--

. N Doughty
I Brennan
SSrifed)

, Gar Lyons (4) —

_PAFaneR 92

_K Jones 95

_P rtven 94

_CHewUra 98

_ L O’Hara (7) —

- DWBktaeon —

— R Campbell —
. s Devin (to

Capricorn Bka, 14-1 ofhers.

1 JO CHARLES VICKERY M0TOR1AL CUP HANDICAP CHASE 02,660:3m If 80yds)

(9 runners)

1 21113-1 RAQFB7E It (GD£) (M Hafetilf Mrs M Dickinson 8-12-5———

2 1F0U3-2 VfltATS WHAT 25 (CDJ.G^) (khs D BouSMd) B BQusffeld 9-11*8_

3 048-233 FREDCOTER118 ftS) (Taranw Murphy) G Moore 1M1-5

4 HW230- TARGET HAN 238 IVAS)(M Britton Uri)W A Stephenson 8-11-S.

5 1513U-2 CAl©T COfE H <CO^,G) IMrs R Brawia) R Brawls 8-19-13-

8 1-11P8S BESSACARRBOTM(F,G)(PrtnchH)GRWiardS7-1D-10-

7 336P-53 TOE WILK 9 (CtVvGKFSccitDj W A Stephenson --

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TENNIS: LENDL, THE DEFENDING CHAMPION, IS FINALLY DETHRONED AFTER GRUELLING MARATHON

GOLF

[ Becker pulls off Master plan ~SS“ s gSEtfr

From Richard Evans
New York

Madison Square Garden has
witnessed many extraordinary
sporting contests but few will
have surpassed the final of the
Nabisco Masters in which
Boris Becker eventually de¬
prived Ivan Lend! of his
coveted title, winning 5-7*7-6,
3-6.6-17-6.

At 4hr 43min it broke
records for longevity and it
nearly broke poor Lendl's
heart. No player could have
done more in defence of a title
he had virtually made his own
over die past seven years and
no one could have lost the last
agonizing point on such a
stroke of ill fortune. Had it
been Muhammad Ali and Joe
Frazier out there, the judges
would have called it a draw, so
slim was ihe evidence of
superiority of one man over
the other.

After more than 4 Vz hours
the match stood at 6-6 in the
fifth set and both players bad
won exactly 157 points. Ia the
end just two points divided
them but it was the last that
will come back to haunt Lendl
on dark winter nights.

It was 6-5 to Becker id the
tie-break and the first match
point for either player. Becker
put in a second serve, stayed
back and immediately a fierce
baseline rally developed that
saw both players going for the
kind of big forehands that had
become such a feature of the
match. Having failed to pierce
each other’s defences, the
tempo slowed and, as the
17.000 crowd gasped in
wonderment, the rally
changed to a probing series of
under-sliced backhands which
kept lower and lower on the
Supreme carpet.

By now the ball had crossed
ihe net more than 30 times
and the tension was excruciat¬
ing. Finally, on the 37th shot
of the rally, Becker's backhand
caught the tape and hung, fora
split second, in the air.

“Oh no, please don’t do
that,” Lendl pleaded with the

Masterstroke: Becker, of West Germany, Is perfectly placed to claim his first Masters title from defending champion Lendl

ball. But it didn't listen.
Dropping into Lendl's court,
it stripped the Master's cloak
from this brave and worthy
champion who had come so
dose to salvaging something
from the wreckage of his year.

Becker, almost dazed with
exhaustion, said: “I don't
know it has happened yet It's
a long time, Wimbledon in
1986 in fact, since I had this
kind of win and 1 have learned
a lot since. I have learned
especially that the good things

do not come easily.”

Becker praised bis Austra¬
lian coach. Bob Brett, who
once offered his services to the
Lawn Tennis Association.
“Bob and I got on a very good
track together” Becker said,
“I'm a sensitive animal and he
found the right words and the
right things to help me.”

Crucially, Brett told Becker
to keep a tight rein on his
volatile temperament The ad¬
vice proved priceless late in
the fifth set when Lendl, who

;to

make numerous impossible
gets, lunged for a short ball
and shovelled it back right on
to the tape. The ball flew high
into the air and Becker, who
was poised for the put-away
volley, could only stab at it
helplessly. Had he won the
point he would have been 0-30
on Lendl's serve at 5-5.

A similar thing happened in
the next game when he
dropped serve to leave Lendl
serving for the match. The

second dose ofbad luck could
have destroyed Becker men¬
ially but instead he fought
bade with such unwavering
determination that he was
able to force his way into the
net, breaking back for the loss
of only two points,

Lendl's first serve deserted
him in the deciding tie-break
and he managed to 'Sin only
two of his six service points
before that desperate rally on
match-point sealed his fate.

Attention focuses
on British failure

From Barry Wood, Melbourne

Sideshow takes centre stage

By Rex Bellamy, Tennis Correspondent

While Great Britain returned to
the practice court yesterday in
an effort to erase memories of
their shock defeat by Indonesia
and to prepare for the consola¬
tion event, the National Tennis
Centre in Melbourne was still
buzzing with news of their
defeat in the first round of the
NEC Federation Cup.

The Australian team's victory
over Israel was almost ignored
by the local media as Britain's
disgrace stole the headlines, and
ihe Indonesians — who play
Spain today — were feted by
television and radio throughout
the day.

On the playing front, the
United States proved they may
be a difficult nation to stop
when they completely over¬
whelmed Switzerland.

Lori McNeil took only 40
minutes to defeat Sandrine
Jaquet, 6-0. 6-1, and Gigi
Fernandez and Ratty Fendick
took 42 minutes to win 6-0, 6-0
over Jaquet and Emanuela
Zardo. Sandwiched in between.

Barbara Potter beat Eva KrapI
6-2,6-4.

RESULTS: nt itro u ntfcCtecJio al QyaWa 3.
Braza 0; United States 3. Switzerland 0;
Canada 2, South Korea 1; New Zealand 3.
China 0; Argentina 3. Greece Or Denmark
3. Luxembourg 0; Finland 2, Hungary 1;
Sweden 3, Bulgaria a

• Sarah Loosemore will partici¬
pate in the Hopman Cup eight-
nation team event that takes
place in Perth at the end of
December. Loosemore joins
Jeremy Bates in a field that
includes Fat Cash, Steffi Graf
and the return of Hana
Mandlikova after six months of
injury.

• The 1989 Federation Cup,
again sponsored by NEC, will be
held in Tokyo from October 1-
8. The International Tennis
Federation announced yes¬
terday that 40 countries nave
entered the women's World
Team Tennis Championships.

The ITF, meanwhile, has also
formally declared Steffi Graf of
West Germany, and Mats
Wilander, of Sweden, as world
champions.

The Nabisco Masters doubles
tournament, to be played at die
Albert Hall from today until
Sunday, is die doubles equiva¬
lent of the singles event won by
Boris Becker in New York on
Monday. These are play-off
festivals for the most successful
singles players and doubles
of die year-long grand
prix circuit.

Next year will be the last for
both events as we have come to
know them. From 1990, the
Association of Tennis Pro¬
fessionals will run its own tour,
shmting foe grand prix from the
main jfg; into the sidings. The
effect wfU be to maintain the
stains of the play-off tour¬
naments while adjusting their
nature.

Provisionally, the ATP plans
to reunite the singles and dou¬
bles in one climactic promotion,
as it was until the split in 1986,
and to take this showcase of
professional tennis around the
world, which was the custom
until the Masters settled in New
York in 1978. la accordance
with the wishes of most players,
the event will probably be
contested a month earlier and

will not always be played on
carpet-like radoor surfaces.

All time makes senses though
the chosen sponsors will obvi¬
ously influence the selection of
venue and, consequently, sur¬
face. The only regrettable fea¬
ture is that unless the format is
nn usually imaginative, the dou¬
bles will lose its special status
and resume its former role as
something of a sideshow.

That can be prevented. At the
highest level singles and doubles
have become specialized crafts.
The same players are unlikely to
qualify for both play-off series:
an embarrassment that used to
present players and organizers
with scheduling problems. Now¬
adays, it is unlikely that a
singles competitor would stay up
half the night playing doubles.
Doubles could feature more
prominently in the order of play.

The origins of the Albert Hall
tournament had nothing to do
with the grand prix or the
Masters. The Dallas-based
promoters. World Champ¬
ionship Tennis (WCT), used to
run a tour indepe n dent of the
grand prix. The WCT tour had
its own play-off series for singles

players and, in 1973, introduced
a separate efimax for doubles
teams.

This was mare successful than
the equivalent grand prix Mas¬
ters doubles, and in1986the two
events were merged, with WCT
oiganiziiig the combined doubles
festivaL The tournament begin¬
ning today win be WCTS six¬
teenth. The first six woe played
in North America, the rest in
England.

Like the Masters stogies, the
doubles begins with aO-piay-aU
matches in two groups of four.
This is good for the spectators,
who have at least three chances
to watch their favourite players,
and good for the competitors,
who can afford to lose a match
while playing themselves into
form at a time of year when their
tennis may have lost a Ifttie of its
edge.

The field indndes three teams
who won grand slam tides
earlier in the yean Ken Flach
and Robert Seguso (Wimble-
don), Sergio Cssal and Fmilfn
Sanchez (United States), and
Kick Leach and Jim Pugh
(Australia).

RUGBY UNION: ROMANIA’S UNEOUT STRENGTH COULD CAUSE PROBLEMS

Tackling

relieves

stalemate

By Michael Stevenson

Hymers College_6

Coleraine Academy_6

A game wholly fashioned by
wind-blown errors ended in a
draw at Hull in a spirited but
otherwise eminently forgettable
contest. But the tackling was
excellent, with the Hymers
flanker, Singh, superb. Predict¬
ably. this meant that the sides
tended to cancel each other out. 1

Hymers had a great chance of
an early lead, when Singh picked
up neatly, fed Andrew and,
when he was high-tackled. Ash-
ion missed what should have
been a straight forward penalty
in the gusting wind.

Ashton almost made amends,
when he came in to the line, beat
one man and chipped diagonally
for Cuppies to tidy efficiently.
Immediately. Gibbons ran well-
down the left for Hymers but
was tackled and penalized for
not releasing.

It was appropriate that the
stalemate should be broken by
two errors. After a scoreless first
half. Beggs hoisted to the
Hymers post; Gibbons.

Wales lose injured Norster

Robert Norster has pulled out of*
Wales's international against
Romania at Cardiff on Saturday
because of a split tendon on the
middle finger of his left hand.
The second-row forward was
examined by the Welsh Rugby
Union surgeon, Harold Rich¬
ards, at a training session last
night and has been advised not
to take part.

John Ryan, the Wales coach,
said: “Bob will have an opera¬
tion on his injured finger on
Thursday and will be out until
the end of December. A decision
will be made as to his replace¬
ment tomorrow night. It is
obviously a disappointment but
the good news is that he will be
fit for the . five nations
championship.**

Kevin Moseley, ofPomypool,
has been drafted in to the squad

By Owen Jenkins

and he is the likely comender to
take Norsier's place.

Ryan, who has been studying
video films of the Romania v
France match, said of the
opposition: •'They're very
strong up front and we expect a
lot of competition at the
lineouts. Romania did well in
the lineout against France, es¬
pecially in the middle where
they have a tall, athletic jumper.

“I think we'll have to use our
strength in the backs. We've got
to vary our game. If we move
the ball too quickly we'll give
their back-row free reign. We
need to lie them down and the
idea is to give our backs good,
quick ball.

"The feet that Romania did
so well against France has been a
positive thing for us. Our play¬
ers will be more motivated and.

nobody will be expecting us to
have a romp, unlike against
Western Samoa. It will be a
more competitive game and we
will have to play well to beat
them.

• The Irish RFU has an¬
nounced the reserves for the
international trial on December
17.

RESERVES: F Dantafl (Laradowns). K
Hooka (Ards). P CSndi (Lanadowno).
H w Mnooa (London irfati). P Pin
(Lansdownrt. R Knyom (CoraSudon). M
Bcodtor (CanstttaiMxO. J Rtzaon
(Young Muratef). TKtatplon (T

M M or (BaSymona), A HfaglRS

Johns (Dungannon). C Pan (O*

P CoHns (London Irish),

(London Irish).

• Rob Andrew, the
stand-off half, has dro
of the North's divisional
championship campaign
because of a rib injury.

Midlands restore four Pace and skill
despite injury doubts *" blended

By David Hands

More in a spirit of hope than
anything else, the Midlands
have restored to their divisional
team the four players who were
forced by injury to withcraw
from the side beaten 27-9 by the
North last weekend.

Thus Hodgkinson (full back).

thumb kept him out for six
weeks and now he suffers
another set-back.

The South-West are due to
confirm their team today, hav¬
ing checked on the well-being of
Buzza after the University

for Edinburgh

By Alan Lorimer

Edinburgh's onder-21 team to
meet the Anglo-Scots at Myre-
side on December 17 will be led
by Peter Wright, the
Boroughmuir and Scotland
under-21 prop. Murray Walker,
his club-mate, will occupy the

misjudging the hanging ball. let’ rwfJfmS i wum ^ atc h and crossing theirfingera pj vota i position in a back
it bounce and O'Neill collected ■ 1 t 4 al Halhday may yet be fit to division which has both nace

for Beggs to convert.

Coleraine led for one minute
only. On the resumption, Beggs
had an intended clearing kick
charged down by Park, Andrew
collected and scored under the
posts for Ashton to level the
score with the conversion.

It could be argued that
Coleraine were unlucky not to
win as they finished strongly,
hammering away at the Hymers
line, after a loose pass back by
Dennett had initiated a period

of pressure compounded by a

missed touch by Ashton and

some nervous handling.

Scorers: Hymen CoBogs. Try; AriflMw.
Convunkxc Ashton. Caknm. Tfft
CNdu. Conversion: Beggs.

HYMER& N Ashton: J Burgess. N ParK. M

LonJ, D Gibbons; P Cook, W DennetC A

RusseU. P Craig, C Bsfljmy. M Shah. P

Kitchen. CAnatmr. R Taytor. SMttcfwfl.

COLERAINE ACADEMY: C Andrew* T

Woodade. C O'Neffl. I Coulter. C Cuppies;

R Beggs, K BMtM; D Shenard, G Unton,

G Houston. O Turidngton, G Logan. C

Livingstone, m Oobson. M Nelson.

Referee: j Graven (YortttWre Society).

half) and Richards (No. 8) are
included against the South and
South-West at Beeston this Sat¬
urday. Thomas must remain an
extremely doubtful quantity; he
has not played for some weeks.
Richards, too. is still not happy
with the shoulder injury which
has been causing him problems.

Pearce, the Northampton and

England prop, will miss the
match after damaging his knee
at Oiley. His place at tight-head

goes to Mosses, of Nottingham,

who deputized so effectively for
him against the Australians in

October. It has been an unlucky

season for Pearce; a broken

play.

London, meanwhile, have re¬
verted to the XV which should
have played against the South-
West last week for their game

against the North at Imber
Court — that is, Hardman, the
Harlequins wing, and Rendall,
the Wasps prop, are restored
after injury.

MDUUMD DIVISION (Nottingham unless
stated): S Hodtfdm o n: B Em
(Leicester), P Dodge (Leicester). G
Harttey, S Hccknor. L CumorA
(Lflfcestsr. capO, 8 Thomee tGcventert: L
Johnson, BMoore, G Menace. J wdl»

(LGiCdStetLM Reid (lditt*te4M Bayfield
PoBc»). G Rm, D Rtcnarde

Injury lets in Mason

Glasgow Schools have been
forced to make onedtange from
their original selection for the
Bank of. Scotland under-18
schools district championship

game against Lothians Schools

at Millerston tomorrow.
McDiarmid, the KdvinsxJe

Academy tight-head prop, is
injured and his place goes to
Mason, of Glasgow Academy.

Lothians Schools will make a

last-minute choice at centre of

two from Milligan (Stewart's
Melville), and the Heriots pair,
Edwardson and Taurida,

division which has both pace
and sldlL

Edinburgh are particularly
potent on the wings with
Fo r re s t e r, who has scored 14
tries this season for Currie and
McRobbie, who has reaped the
benefits of playing in New

Zealand in the summer by

scoring three tries at the week¬
end.

While the bulk of the team has
been chosen from first and

second division clubs, there are

five players who play in the
lower divisions. They

areMadean, Henderson, Bur¬
nett, McKdvie and Ward.

EDINBURGH UNDER-21: S

O.SFBffM-

wtimur), N

■ Ward
(Har-

. ntfcC

MaMM, J Pwrat (EdHugh Academy
cafe). D Moon (Cot*).

*•

YACHTING

Madec on
route to
the front

By Barry PkktimU

Despite losing seven hours
repairing the damage caused by
a spectator boat at the start of
the Route of Discovery trans¬
atlantic race on Sunday, Jet
Services, the 75ft French cata¬
maran was back in the running
last night. Skippered by the
transatlantic record holder,
Serge Madec, the yacht was
expected to take the lead last
night as the 20-strong fleet
headed towards the third turn¬
ing mark in the Canary Islands
on the way to the West Indies.

The leading monohuD yes¬
terday was Menu Pierre
Fbhlmann's Swiss Whitbread
Round the World entry, which
held a tenuous three-mile
advantage over Union Bank of
Finland, skippered by Ludde
IngvalL

With Integrity, under the
command of Andrew Coghill
and sailing with an amateur
crew, led British hopes in tenth
place, 72 miles behind the
leaders.

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FaNmann (Swttz), 3.319; 2. Union Bank ol
Finland. L InavaBJRn). 3£2& 3. HtSpania.

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U Haridmo. Fin), &333; 5. Gaaarade (G
Pali. B). 3 ^Lawtt^Mftdi galena:

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championships for production
boards was again abandoned
yesterday

Mayo
challenges
for lead

From John Hennessy
La Manga

Paul Mayo, of Wales, the 1987
British amateur champion, has
handsomely achieved his. am¬
bition at his first PGA qualify¬
ing school here, making the 72-
hoJe cut in this stx-rotmd
tournament.

A 68 yesterday, three under
par for the North course, not
only gave him 12 shots to spare
on 276 at 10 under par, it also
put him within one shot of the
lead, held jointly by Alberto
Binaghi (Italy). Je$per Parncvik
(Sweden) and Rick Hartmann
(United States).

With a stiff breeze blowing,
Mayo bit every green in the
conventional number of strokes
and it was mostly a question of
whether or not the birdie puns
would drop. They did on three
occasions, from two feet at the
knag third, from six feet at the
short eighth and from six inches
at another king hole, the 15th.
The only moment of alarm in
another admirably controlled
round of golf was when his tee
shot at the long 11th came
whbin six inches of going out of
bounds.

Mayo is the only British
player in the top eight, a
reflection on the gathering
strength of the game across the
Channel, save only for
Hartmann's intrusion.

Parncvik, the overnight lead¬
er, dropped shots at three
successive holes from the 11th,
but the Swedes are resilient
characters in golf as well as in
tennis. An eagle three at the
15th, where he hit a four-iron to
20 feet and holed the putt, and a
wedge to six feet at the J7th,
brought him back to par for the
round.

The 72-hole cut fell on 288,
leaving, as usual, some distin¬
guished names out in the cold,
none more so than that of Jack
Nicklaus, son of the master, on
298. “1 arrived here in good
form and was encouraged by a
first round of 70, but J haven’t
played well since,” he said.

Others who foiled included
David Wood (289), a Welsh
international, Craig Laurence
(290), a former English match-
play champion, Jeremy Robin¬
son (291), his stroke-play
equivalent, and David Ecob
(293), of Australia, the holder of
the European Open amateur
title:

LEADING SCORES (British and Irish
unless statadk 275: JPamavft (5m). 68.
69.67.71; A Binaghi flu. 68.70,67.70: R
Hartmann (USL ®. 67. 71. 68. 27B: P
Mayo.68.67.73,68: MFarry (Fr). 68.71,
67. 70; J Tumta M 66. 70. 70. 70; U
Nissan (Swe). 69. S8. 68. 71. 277: L
Hadat Mu a n i (SwoL 70. 69. 70. 68; M
Jmanaz (Sp). 73. 67. 70. 67. 276: D
Jamas, 7070.68,72.279b P Cwriga 67.
70, 72. 70: C Gray. 66. 74. 72. 67; J
Moriica (Fr). 73, 68. 66. 72. 2ttfc S
Stephan. 66. 68.74,70; M Krantz (SwaL
72.05.72.71; VStah(Hi), 71.66.72.69.
Othara: 28% M Dora. 283: P Hoad.284: J
McHenry. 285: J Hawkswonh. 286: P
BroadhtasL287: W Henry. 288: D Curry, P
Gfrvan.

Brand chance to
show his maturity

From Mitchell Platts, Golf Correspondent Melbourne

rill suit Cotin because he is a
very steady player. And steadi¬
ness fe the name of the j
this event because,

Gordon Brand jar surprised
even himself when he won the
South A ust ral ian Open by the
preposterous margin of seven
strokes only five days after
arriving in Australia three
weeks ago. Now his objective is
to help Scotland win the Philip
Morris World Cup, starting
here on the Royal Melbourne
course tomorrow.

“It would make it a fairytale
mouth out here fw me,” he said.
“I Dew down here a week after
mkahift the half-wiy cat ia the
Volvo Masters. But I had one of
those pore weeks in Adelaide. It
was quite extraordinary."

Brand, despite his junior tag
to avoid confusion with his
namesake on the PGA Tour,
assumes the role of elder states¬
man this week. His partner Is
Colin Montgomerie, who 12
months ago this week was
engaged in the frenetic task of
earning his card on to the PGA
European tour via the qualifying
school.

Montgomerie's rise from
Walker Cup player in 1985 to
the Scottish team excels even
that of Brand, who took from
1979 to 1984 to make the
transition. “I know how Colin is
going to feel,” Brand said. “I felt
very nervous when I teed up for
the first time with Sam Torrance
in Rome. I'm determined to give
this week everything if only
because 1 know how much it is
going to mean to Cotin.

“I think we have a very good
chance of w inning. The course

■£:

Brand: sweet taste of success

estiy, it is difficult to get two
guys playing well together over
four rounds of stroke-play.

Brand cites the case of Wales
winning the World Cap in Maui,
Hawaii, last year as a reason
why be and Montgomerie out
approach the event with op¬
timism. “Wales won because Ian
Woosnam was there,” Brand
said. “I mean no disrespect to
Darid Llewellyn but Woosfas, the
way Jut was playing then, could
have pulled anyone atesg. Ta
not the same as Woosfc, but
together 1 think Colin and I are
probably as good a team as
Wales were last year. So why
should we not wio.

Brand, with six victories oa
the PGA Tour between 1982 and
1987. was disappointed that he
did not record another success in

Europe last season. He mostly
attributes that to refining his
swing to erase the destructive
shots which too often tarnished
his scoring. To achieve that he
has worked with increasing
diligence on the practice range
under the studious eye of Bob
Torrance.

“We've been concen tratin g on
everything from posture to
takeaway,** Brand said. “My
hands were loo high and 1 was
standing too far away from the
balL Since I have started stand¬
ing closer to it I'm getting the
dub into a better position at the
top so that when 1 do mis-coe it
Is not as destructive as it was."

Brand does admit that after
another arduous season he is in
need of recharging the batteries.
He will not arrive home in
Queen Chariton, the fanning
village between Bristol and
Bat&, until December 19
because be moves on from here
to represent Europe in the Kirin
Cup in Hawaii.

“HI be ready by then to put
the dubs away,” he said. “HI
play some snooker. Tm going to
do some naming and some
physical fitness train s... and
some drinking. But what I wilt
eqjoy most is sitting in my own
home for more than a month,
without travelling, watching the
television and having a cop of tea
with toast and syrup.”

£100,000 mixed event

The heavy schedule of amateur
tournaments received another
to its ranks yesterday when
C & A, the chain store group,
announced it is to spend
£100,000 annually on a tour¬
nament for mixed club players.

The Rodeo Champion of
Champions competition will be
decided on net aggregate and
around 1,000 players are ex¬
pected to compete in seven

regional stroke-play
events. The leading 60 pairs wif
then go through to an 18-hole
final at Woburn on October 12.

The sponsors will carry all the
costs, but each club to enter its
lop man and woman players will
be asked to donate £50 to the
Prince's Trust. This is expected
to raise more than £30,000
towards helping disadvantaged
young people aged 14 to 25.

SKIING

Girardelli stakes his claim

The much vaunted battle for
World Cup overall supremacy
between Pirmin Zurbriggen, of
Switzerland, and Alberto
Tomba, of Italy, yesterday was
given a new dimension when the
only man with a proven ability
to beat them at their own game
won his first slalom for three
and a half years.

Mare Girardelli, the Austrian-
born skier who competes for
Luxembourg,-and who suffered
cruelly from injuries last season,
emphasized that he is back to
his best.

He completed the two runs of
the Kandahar piste in lmin
47.31 sec, giving him an impres¬
sive margin of victory of0.89sec
over the former world cham¬
pion. Jonas Nilsson, of Sweden.
Paul Accola, ofSwitzerland, was
third.

Vying with Girardelli for
attention, however, was Italy’s
national hero, Tomba, the
Olympic and World Cup slalom
champion, who has had a
mediocre start to the season.

Nonetheless, it foiled to deter
an estimated crowd of 15,000 —

From Iain Madeod, Sestriere

four times more than had been
expected — from clambering on
to the steeply inclined slopes of
this high-altitude resort.

The noise and colour should
have been Tomba's inspiration:
instead he squandered a dear
lead at the intermediate time on
the second run, and when he
missed the gate there was an
almighty, collective sigh of
disappointment.

Tomba, who finds himself
under almost intolerable pres¬
sure to repeat last season’s
phenomenal form (he won nine
World Cup races), said: “It was
just bad tuck. I wanted to go too
fost I went too dose. But 1 know
there's nothing wrong. I'm in
good shape.”

But if Tomba’s career has
taken a temporary nosedive,
Girardelli. winner of the overall
title in 1985 and 1986, and the
only man besides 2Uirbriggen
(who foiled to qualify for the
second run yesterday) who can
win in all four disciplines, has
dosed to 15 points the gap
between himself and the Swiss
in this season's competition.

Girardelli attributes his
changed fortunes to two factors:
he has ironed out technical
problems, and last spring
adopted, to great effect, different
ski boots.

Girardelli dearly seems to be
more relaxed. At one stage at the
beginning of last season he
foiled to finish in four consec¬
utive races.

Now. he is back with. a
vengeance.

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RUGBY LEAGUE

Referees told to send
off players for tripping

By Keith Macklin

1 Fred Lindop, the new director of
referees, has lost no time in
waging war against foul tackles
ana dangerous play.

In his first address to senior
referees, at Leeds, he called fin-a
firm line on deliberate tripping
and off-the-ball tackles, instruct¬
ing referees instantly to Hi-vrnias
the offenders.

R efe r ee s have been confined
for many seasons about the
correct punishment for some*
offences, and the introduction of
the sin-bin intensified their
bewilderment by giving them an
option which, in many respects,
fudged the issue.

Tripping has always been
regarded as a nasty offence, but
no one before Lindop has
defined instant dismissal as the

proper punishment.

The instruction on off-the-
ball fouls still leaves the match
referee to decide whether the
incident is of sufficient gravity,
and the injury caused suf¬
ficiently serious, to warrant
dismisal rather than a lecture
anda penalty.

Lindop made it dear that he
does not favour the use of the
sin-bin as an alternative in the
circumstances.

• Gary Hyde, the long-serving
Castleford centre, will tell Old¬
ham today whether he will join
them. The dubs agreed a fee of
£1 S.QQ0 and Hyde is considering
Oldham's contract offer.

_ *Tm 90% certain be will
sign,” Tony Barrow, the Old¬
ham coach, said.

SCHOOLS FOOTBALL

Westminster are back in the pink

By George Chesterton

Traditionalists will be pleased
that Westminster have returned
to their pink shirts. The change
seems to have inspired them, as
they followed last week’s success
over Charterhouse with a 6-2
win against St Edmund's
Canterbury. They owe much of
this to the midfield direction of
Nicholas and to Worthington,
who plays for a Chelsea Junior
11, he has scored seven times in
the last three matches, including
three goals against St Edmund's.

Wefegtaisfflsh were pleased
with a 2-2 draw at HiAwte. At

rtwoi

the best goal of tire match,
voDeyiogin a hard shot fixwn the
comer, and Crosby scored the
equalizer.

AMemham went down 2-3 at
borne to ChigwelL The score
was 1-1 at hajftune. Carpenter
then put the visitors one ahead
with' a fine solo effort, Cham
dripped a ball over the goal¬
keeper to put Aldemham on
level terms again. Ten minutes
from time, Levy headed in a
comer to grve Cnigndl victory.

A keen, fost game at Lancing
saw Hampton come out winners
with a late goal, scored after a

series of skilful passes, which set
Webster up to shoot from eight
yards. In the English Schools
Trophy, Sunderland, are the
only side from the North-East to
go through to the fifth round.
They defeated Derby 4-2, an
their four goals coining during a
20 minute period
MflHieM have won the
Somerset Under-19 County Cup
for the sixteenth time in the 20
years they have entered. Six of
their team have played for the
county and of these, McKenna,
Taylor and Royall have bad
international ™i«

MOTOR SPORT

Toleman and
Lee look to
mean business

Ted Toleman and Barry Lee will
be embarking on one of the
toug hest test drives in history an
Christmas Day when they climb
aboard their £100.000 TG89
Eoduro for the Paris-Dakar rally
(Jeremy Hart writes).

Toleman, competing in his
third “Dakar” is not only aim¬
ing to finish this year, but to
show his 130m. p. b car off to
Prospective buyers.

“Now the car has the poten¬
tial to finish the rally we have
found a market for selling the
Enduro,” Toleman said- “Other
teams have approached us
about buying the car, but more
significantly the military have
shown interest in the car as a fost
pursuit vehicle — so whatever
happens this year the rally wifi
have taken a new turn for us in
business terms.”

■ I"* 1 ? £250,000 team was
““ached in Oxfordshire yes¬
terday -just a few weeks after
Toleman and Lee had been
testing in the dunes of Tunisia —
part of the new route for the
P&ris-Dakar.

. ”P* ?“■ handled beautifully
in Tunisia but when it came to
*®5, lin 8 the car at over
h l let Ted drive,” Lee
said. When we come to cross¬
ing Libya I think wc*ll be doing
that speed, at least and keeping
our mouths shut.*’ -

• ROME: John Barnard, the
Bnttsh designer, has denied he
has an ultimatum from Ferrari

rrifssstf<ssssa;

?^ 1 s ° t ^P cak »ng in Spain after
jesun g u« prototype which wifi
form the basis for the revised
model, Barnard said he hoped

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Hearts braced for
bruising defence
of British honour

From Roddy Forsyth, Mostar, Yagoslavia

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the Scottish championship has
been a deeply depressing
experience fornean of Midlo¬
thian, tip players and manage¬
ment were at least reminded
of their alternative status
when they arrived in Yugo¬
slavia yesterday for their
UEFA Cup third round sec¬
ond teg tie with Velez Mostar.

The handful of Edinburgh
supporters who accompanied
the official party produced a
cheerful chorus of “There's
only one team in Europe” as
the Hearts plane made a
sickeningly bumpy landing in
high winds at Split airport.

. The chances are that Hearts
will still be Britain's sole
representative in any of the
three European tournaments
when the ballot for the quar-

of their journey to this some¬
what remote moun tain resort
served as a reminder that
further progress is far from
guaranteed despite a 3-0 lead
from the first kg in Scotland
two weeks ago.

The flight from Edinburgh
turned out to be equivalent to
less than half of the travelling
time and it took a further three
hours by bus to bring the team
along the precipitous road
which winds above the difis of
the Adriatic Riviera.

AD of yesterday’s daylight
hours were spent in the tire¬
some business of travel but at
least the Tynecastle players
were able to loosen their
confined limbs with a brief
evening training session at the

Italian hopes are high

By Keith BUckraore

later MSan, Napoli, and
Jnventus, the three leading
te am s in the Italian first di¬
vision, cany their country’s best
■hopes of advancing to the last
eight of the UEFA Cup this
evening.

Inter will be particutarfy dis-
appomted if they do not
progress, having beaten Bayern
Munich, the leaders of the West
German first division, 2-0 in
Munich in the first leg.

Their success this season has
rested largely on the perfor¬
mances of the Ge rman midfield
players, Matthaus and Brehme.
and the young Italian, Berti.
who scored the memorable sec¬
ond goal in Munich. Zenga, the
Inter goalkeeper, and Thou, the
Bayern midfield player, may
miss the match because of
injury.

Napoli, who have easily
beaten Juventus and AC Milan
in recent weeks, entertain Bor-

secured a one-

deaax,

goal lead in

Bordeaux' have per form ed
indifferently in the French
league fins season, and are
expected to include Olsen, who
was recently acquired from
Manchester United. They will
be without Roche, who him de
Napoli, of Napoli, will be sus¬
pended, having been sent off in
■the first leg. Maradona mil
make his 200th appearance for
Napoli

Jnventns also won 1-0 away in
their first-leg match against FC
liege and put themselves in the
right frame of mind to i m pro ve
on the lead by beating Fisa 4-1
on Sunday.

A fourth Italian team. Born,
free a more demanding task,
having lost their fim-Jeg match
to Dynamo Dresden 2-0. They
will also be hampered by the
absence, through injury, of five
first team players.

venue for a match to be played
this afternoon to save the cost
of floodlighting the pitch.

The playing surface is sod¬
den after days of rain and even
the fierce gales which gust
through the limestone gorges
of this region wiH not m a ke a
significant impact on the over¬
lying moisture SO the chanc es
of elegant football befog pro¬
duced by either side today are
remote.

Every* sign suggests that
Hearts will be obliged to
endure an intense and phys¬
ically draining contest which
will try both their tempera¬
ment and their concentration.

Mostar have been re¬
inforced by the return of their
regular striker, June; who
missed the first leg because the
Yugoslav army dndinrd to
release him from service. The
.military authorities were not
much more sympathetic to his
(fleas to be allowed to play in
the return leg but someone at
Mostar has appar ently pulled
strings and June joined his
team-mates yesterday.

Against his presence, how¬
ever, Mostar wifl be without,

tinteofflirir qi^iHiaT y jHpprf

because of suspension.

In the Scottish camp, the
main worries concern the
midfield (flayer, Neil Berry,
who ha* a riamagj Bri an frl t* anrf
Eamonn Bannon. the former
Dundee United forward, who
scored one of Hearts’ goals in
the first fog.

He has suffered an Infected
leg wound but declared last
night that treatment by anti¬
biotics had been positive and
that he felt able to play.

Loyal servant From club captain to manager. King always commands respect with his undying enth nsiam for Altrincham

King leads troops by example

Change of role for Gosney

Portsmouth have unearthed an
unlikely new goalscorer in the
shape of their goalkeeper, Andy
Gosney. Gosney, aged 25, has
switched roles to lead the re¬
serves'attack and so for be has
responded by scoring both then-
goals in the last two games. He
headed in at Ipswich and, on
Saturday, scored from a 20-yard
shot at White Hart Lane.

He said: “The other lads are
enjoying. it because they get
more joy from high balls and
crosses. It gives them an extra
option. I make a good forward.
Tm also enjoying it- Most
goalkeepers fancy themselves
outfield and hopefully I can
keep scoring."

• Ray Harford, the Luton man-

_ r, is likely to sign the Hendon
forward, lam Dowie, after the
player has served a three-match
ban which starts on Saturday,
and two weeks* notice with his
job.

The forward, who has scored
27 goals this season for the
Vauxhall Opel premier

division side, is employed as an
engineer by British Aerospace in
Hatfield.

• Lawrie Madden, the Shef¬
field Wednesday defender, is
available on a free transfer the
dub announced yesterday. The
manager, Peter Eustace, said
Madden wanted to go into
coaching or management.

• Reading are hoping to sign the
central defender. Domenyk

Newman, from the Beazcr
Homes League side. Fandom.
The dubs have agreed an un-
disdffwvi fee and Reading are
now waiting for the computer
anul ygt in make his deriafon.

• Ian Handysides, the
B irmingham midfield player
forced to retire from pro¬
fessional football after an opera¬
tion to remove a brain tumour,
has been presented with a
£5,250 tax bin. The dub has
been told that gate rece ip ts of
£35.000 from his benefit game
against Manchester United last
week are subject to 15 per cent
VAT. Birmingham have vowed
to appeal if the deduction is
enforced.

By Paul Newman

For a man who has seen and
achieved so much in semi-
professional football, the most
impressive aspect of John
King’s attitude to his job as
miiTMgw of Altrincham is his
sheer wuhnyawit -

“Evexy game is the highlight
of my c ar eer," be said.
"Whether it’s in the League, the
FA Cup, or any other com¬
petition, I love every match that
Tm involved in."

On Saturday, King leads his
tw»m into an FA Cop second
round tie at home to Halifax
Town, hoping to register Al¬
trincham’s 14th victory over
Football League opponents,
which would be a record for a
non-League club.

No one has been more central
to Altrincham’s recent achieve¬
ments than King, who captained
the Cheshirr difb^in the late
1970s and early 1980s, and in
two spc&s as manager has main¬
tained its fine Cup reputation.

King, who runs his own
scaffolding business on Mersey¬
side, dismisses any suggestion
that there might be a “secret” to
Altrincham’s Cup success, other

FA CUP

than "having players who have
the will to win”.

Yet Geoff Lloyd, the GM
Vauxhall Conference chib’s
chairman, sees King's ability to
communicate his enthusiasm
and commitment to his players
as the crucial factor.

"John is the best man-man¬
ager in non-League football,"
Lloyd said. "He’s a marvellous
motivator. He brings out of
players abilities which they
didn't even know they had.

"They respect him enor¬
mously because of what he
achieved for the club as a player,
and they know that anyone who
givesless than 100 per cent will
not last long under him.

"He is very ' professional.
When John Motson asked to do
& television piece on him and
the players, John King insisted
that Altrincham should not be
portrayed in the same way that
Southport had been in the last

round, as the usual stereotyped
non-League collection of butch¬
ers, bakers and candlestick
makers.

"We will go about Saturday’s
game in the same professional
way that Halifax will, and John
wants his team to be shown
simply as footballers, doing
their job on the pitch."

In King’s first, two-year spell
as manager, Altrincham fin¬
ished fifth and fourth in the
Conference, won the FA Trophy
at Wembley, and reached the
second and fourth rounds of the
Cup. In winning 2-1 away to
Birmingham City, they became
only the fifth non-League club in
61 years to knock out first
division opponents.

Between his departure, imme¬
diately after the Trophy triumph
in 1986. and his return three
months ago, Altrincham had
three managers, John Williams,
Tommy Docberty and Jeff
Johnson, saw their Conference
form slump and lost their only
FA Cup lie against League
opponents.

King and his assistant^ Gra¬
ham Heaihcote, another former

player, inherited a team which
had lost three of its first four
Conference matches this season,
but Altrincham have lost only
once in 13 Conference fixtures
since they began a rapid rebuild¬
ing programme.

Even Cap success has re¬
turned. In the fourth qualifying
round Altrincham overcame
Macclesfield Town, then second
to top of the Conference, and in
the first round proper they beat
Lincoln City 3-2.

With a Cup record over the
past nine years of seven wins
and one defeat against fourth
divirion opponents, Altrincham
are seen in some quarters as
favourites to beat Halifax on
Saturday, bin King will quickly
dispefl any complacency in the
dressing-room.

"We know that Halifax are a
fourth division side and we’re
not," he said. "People talk about
Halifax being a good team going
forward, but they have some
pretty good defenders as well.
Being able to work at their game
every day of the week must be a
huge advantage for them. They
have to be the favourites.”

Sheringham tipped for
England by Robson

'Bobby Robson, the England
manaaer. has mailed the part
Teddy Sheringham has played
m MiltwalTs successful start to
their first season in the first
division.

Robson said: "Sheringham
has shown outstanding form
and is a very useful player. He
got into the England Under-21
ride last season and could
possibly become a full inter¬
national if be can prove himself
to be a consistent performer.”

The England manager, who
must be concerned about the
erratic form of his main for¬
ward, Gary Lineker, sees
Sheringham as a fixture

prospect.

_ “Sheringham has a physical

presence but be has a lot more to
offer as well," Robson said. "He
has proved himself to be a
rimifal finisher.

"Teddy and his partner, Tony
Cascarino, have scored a lot of
goals this season and have
played major pans in MilfwaiTs
rise up the first division table.
Mill wall must be quite delighted
with him and now it’s up to
Teddy to sokUer on and mow
that he can continue to produce
the goods."

Cascarino believes that his
MiDwaD co l leag ue could do a
good job for Robson. “One of
the lag things in his favour is
that he goes looking for the balL
He will run all over the place,”
Cascarino said.

Irish Cup gets Dejected Shaw teams
extra boost U p yyjflj Austrians

By Chris Moore

from sponsors

Fashanu and Anderson
are called to hearing

Sponsorship of the Irish Cup is
being increased by Bass Ireland
limite this seasonby 10 per cent
to £15,000 (George Ace writes).
The winners will receive £5,500,
the largest sum ever to be
offered . .

Details were announced by
Brian Houston, marketing man¬
ager of Bass, in Belfast yes¬
terday. As well as a sliding scale
ofawards for the runners-up, the
hwnwi semi-finalists and quar¬
ter-finalists, there will be four
pers on ality awards.

Gary Shaw, the former Aston
VOla forward, turned his bade
dejectedly on English football
last night after agreeing to join
Klagenfurt, the Austrian dub.

Shaw, aged 27, the golden boy
fitfVnja'* European Cup triumph
hi 1982, had hoped to return to
the Football League after a
successful spell Lb Denmark
with KB Copenhagen, for whom
he scored five goals in 12 games.

“What the money dobs are
pa y ing for players these days I

David Bowen, the secretary of can't befieve that Tm not worth a
the Irish Football Assocatxoo, phone call as _a free ag ent ."
said his Association was delight- Shaw, a ~
ed to be connected with Bass,
which is its eleventh year of
sponsorship.

former European
footballer of thy year,:

"A lot of people thought I was
finished after having to undergo

six knee operations before I left
Villa last season.

“But I've been playing regu¬
larly for the last 18 months with
no Ill-effects. I had hoped to
hare the opportunity of proving
the critics wr on g bn it doesn't
look as though I wfll get the
chance."

Kfogenfurt offered Shaw a
contract after he scored in their
3-1 win over Graz last weekend.
• Jan Molby is ooe of three
senior players in Liverpool’s
squad for tomorrow night's
Gninoess Soccer Six champ¬
ionship at Manchester. The
others are Brace Grobbetaar,
the goalkeeper, and Peter
Beardsley, the England forward.

John Fashanu and Viv Ander¬
son will offer their versions of
the Plough Lane “tunnel in¬
cident” to an FA disciplinary
commission in London on
December 20. Both players have
been charged with bringing the
game into disrepute over the
fracas after Wimbledon and
Manchester United met in a
Littlewoods Cup tie on Novem¬
ber 2.

Anderson, the United and
England full bade, claims he was
struck by Fashanu. while the
Wimbledon forward maintains
the opposite view.

• The Football League is to
settle the dispute between
Middlesbrough and Oldham
Athletic over the date for a
postponed Sfrnod. Cup first

round match. Middlesbrough,
the home dub. want to play the
game next Wednesday, but Old¬
ham prefer Tuesday, night
because they also have a second
division game at Ipswich Town
next Friday.

• Ray HanJtin, of non-League
Guisborough Town, has re¬
ceived a three-match suspension
after being booked for not
wearing the captain’s arm-band
and then being dismissed for
protesting in the FA Cup fust
round against Bury.

• Plymouth Argyle will start
their match against Watford on
January 2 at 2 p. m.

• BAGHDAD: F IFA fug lifted
its ban on •fraq^SlagjBgVWter-
naticmal matches

SNOOKER

Pulman vexed
by Hendry’s
lack of drive

By Steve Acteson

John Pulman, the snooker
world champion for 11 years
from 1957 — the days when
. sponsors were non-existent and
■ prize-money a rarity — was a
puzzled man yesterday as he
pondered upon Stephen
Hendry’5 pronouncement that
he had become “bored" and
“lacking in motivation" during
his quarter-final victory over
Dennis Taylor in the Everest
World Matchphy tournament
on Monday.

Pulman, the trcacte-voiced
doyen of snooker com¬
mentators, found it almost
impossible to believe that
Hendry could admit to such
disinterest during any tour¬
nament, let alone one carrying a
first prize of£!0fl,000.

Hopefully Hendry will have
rekindled his inner fires by the
time he plays John Parrott in
their semi-final tomorrow.

Pulman said: “If Stephen is
■finding it hard to motivate
himself at the age of 19, then
what is going to happen to him
when he’s 35? It’s a little
difficult to understand. I find his
statements nonsensical, es¬
pecially when he’s playing for
this amount of prize-money. I
lost motivation for the same
myself... after 38 yearn."

Jimmy White, the world
"No. 2, also seemed to be lacking
something yesterday when he
slipped 34) behind against Terry
Griffiths. White swiftly repaired
the damage, however, reeling off
the next five frames, including a
break of 92 in the seventh, to
lead by two frames with nine to
play.

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to overwhelm Dutch

From Carol Salmon, Sydney

England reached the half-way But the

stage of their Shell bicentennial
women’s World Cup campaign
with a nine-wicket win over The
Netherlands in Sydney.

The Netherlands were bowled
out for 97 in 60 overs with the
best figures going to the last
change bowler, Carole Hodges,
who took four for !4 in lOovers.

Inspired by 48 not out from
Janette Brittin, who was back in
form, and an equally i m pre s sive
unbeaten 39 from Wendy Wat¬
son, England reached 98 tor one
in 29.3 overs.

The left-arm spinner, Caro¬
line Barts, finished her 12 overs
with five maidens in a row and
her one for seven takes her to
eight wickets for the tour¬
nament. England’s best haul

With The Netherlands rarely
able to penetrate the field.

England bowled 56 overs in the
2¥i hours before lunch.

The day's surprise was En¬
gland’s decision to pnt The
Netherlands in to bat on win¬
ning the toss.

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erably less than that of then-
rivals, and with The Nether¬
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CYCLING

In search of a venue

Three cities are on the short-list
to host the British qualifying
race for the new cycling World
Cup competition on July 30
next year (Peter Bryan writes).

Alan Rushton, the organizer
of the Kelloggs Tour of Britain,
who is responsible for Britain's
contribution to the 12-race se¬
ries, said yesterday that he was

looking at possible circuits in
the Midlands, North and the
North-East.

“I need a course that is
without being mountainous
which can preferably be dosed
to all Other traffic," he said.

Rushton appears to have been

allocated the "phim" date of the
year.

BOXING

Wenton out to Warren rejects claims

extend his , ... ,

he did not pay purses

unbeaten run

By George Ace

Nigel Wenton, a super-feather¬
weight p rosp ect from Mersey¬
side. and John Lowey, a former
amateur international from Bel¬
fast, are in two back-up fights on
a Barney Eastwood promotion
at the Ulster Hall tonight.

' Wenton, aged 19, who has yet
to come out for the fourth round
in five fights, meets John
Bennie, of Scotland, while
Lowey, who reached the last 16
in the Seoul Olympics, meets
Sean Cray, of Deny, at
bantamweight.

Topping the bill is a
middhvezght bout between the
former Irish champion, Sam
Storey, and Dairen Hobson, of

• Chris Pyatt, of Leicester, the
former European tight-middle¬
weight champion, is to meet the
Hollywood-based Nigerian,
Young Dick Tiger, at the York
Haft, Bethnal Green, on Decem¬
ber 14.

FOOTBALL

Frank Warren, the promoter,
has denied that Herd Graham
and his challenger. Johnny
Melfah, have not been paid fora
recent British middleweight title
bout.

Warren’s angry reaction came
after Graham's manager, Bar¬
ney Eastwood, had lodged an
official complaint with the Brit¬
ish Boxing Board of Control,
claiming that Graham was still
waiting for the purse from the
defence against Melfah two
weeks ago.

Eastwood claims more than
£22,000 is due from Warren
while Billy Aird, the manager of
Melfah, said that a £16,000
purse was still due to the
Gloucester boxer.

“Both managers should really
get their act together before
making irresponsible statements
to the Press," Warren said.
“Payment has been made to
Billy And and the cheque was
sent on the 29th November.

"As far as Herd Graham is

concerned he has been paid and
payment was made io ac¬
cordance with instructions we
received from HeroL There is no
complaint from the boxer
regarding non-payment.

"According to the amount
claimed for Melfah's purse in
the Press by Billy Aird it would
appear that this manager is
unable to get even this correct.
No official complaint regarding
any non-payment has been
made by Billy Aird to the British
Boxing Board of ControL"

Earlier in the day a spokes¬
man for Eastwood said a solic¬
itor’s letter had been forwarded
to the Board, who in turn
confirmed that a complaint had
been received.

Eastwood has the option of
making a claim against the bond

Warren lodged with the Board
before the contest. Under Box¬
ing Board regulations Warren is
required to make purse pay¬
ments within seven days of the
promotion-

SQUASH RACKETS

Opie decides
to rest from
competition

Lisa Opie, tired and dispirited
after her surprise defeat by
Alison Cumings in the semi¬
finals of the ImerCity National
Championships last week, is to
rest from competition at least
until the end of January (Colin
McQuillan writes).

Cumings is likely to play at
second string for England in the
European Championships, at
Dublin from January 6, with
Donna Vardy, the leading Eng¬
land junior, moving into the
squad as a possible fifth string.

Martine Le Moignan, pro¬
moted to No. 1 on this month’s
England ranking list after
defeating Cumings to take a
second national title, will lead
the line in Dublin. Lucy Soutler
is nominated at second suing,
but die is out of the game with a
staphylococcus infection

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(Hampshire); 2, L Opie (Nottinnhamstwe);
3, L Souitsr (GJotiCBSBrswiS); 4, A
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COMMENTARY

David

Miller

Chief Sports

Corrosponden

Vienna

Controversial judging decisions
in amateur boxing, which were
conspicuous at the Olympic
Games in Los Angeles and
Seoul, are likely to be reduced or
even eliminated by the use of
computerized scoring
techniques.

Such computers, already in
use in the Soviet Union, Hun¬
gary, Yugoslavia and Switzer¬
land, will be tested in
international competition in Bul¬
garia and East Germany early
next year and will be used in the
European championships in
Athens in June and the world
championships in Moscow in
September.

Professor Anwar Chowdhry.
president of the International
Amateur Boxing Association
(AlBA), announced this yes¬
terday at the general assembly
of the Association of National
Olympic Committees.

After sharp criticism by Juan
Antonio Samaranch, the IOC
president, of disorder in the ring
in Seoul and of biased judging,
and also (be continuing medical
criticism of the alleged dangers
of boxing, Chowdhry has taken
argent action to protect amateur
boxing's future on two fronts.

On November 4 he met
privaielywith Samaranch and
yesterday he addressed the IOC
medical commission on safety
precautions. Samaranch had
softened his attitude with a
statement on November 18 in
Puerto Rico, at the meeting of
Pan-American NOCs, that he
would not permit the elimination
of boxing from the Olympics,
which some had been seeking.

“There is always scope (or
difference of opinion in judg¬
ing." Chowdhry said yesterday.
“Just as there is in judo,
gymnastics, diving, skating and
wrestling. The boxing judging in
Seoul was In fact superior to that
in LA, but was undermined by
one or two very bad decisions.
Yon cannot defend this. How¬
ever, the computer system will

Move for ban

The suspension of weightlifting
from the Olympics in the wake
of drugs scandals at Seoul is to
be proposed by a leading Olym¬
pic official at a two-day meeting
starting today. Dick Pound, the
Canadian vice-president of the
International Olympic Com¬
mittee (IOC), will put the pro¬
posal to a meeting of the IOC
Executive Board.

Five weight Jitters were
among 10 competitors found
guilty of using banned drugs at
the Olympic Games.

completely remove such de¬
cisions as the wrongful defeat of
the American, Jones. It will be
foolproof.”

The Russian computer, which
is the one to be used internation¬
ally, registers the instant record¬
ing of judges every time they
consider a legitimate Mow has
been landed on the target area.

These judgements are logged,
and make impossible the prac¬
tice of “impression judging”, by
which the judge makes an
arbitrary decision at the conclu¬
sion of the bout, with the
possibility of an imbalance of
marking between the early and
later, more immediate, phases of
the bom.

“We have already seen the
computer in Leningrad, and by
the end of 1989 it will become
compulsory iu all international
competition," Chowdhry said
yesterday. The IOC medical
commission has been advised of
an in-depth study of the physical
effects of boxing on competitors
being carried oat by the Johns
Hopkins University of the
United States.

This investigation, the mag¬
nitude of which makes it unique,
was commissioned in 1986 by
the US Amateur Boxing Federa¬
tion. The university is analysing
500 randomly chosen boxers in
six rides over a four-year period,
with epidemiologic surveys and
a determination of any excessive
medical risk. Dr Waiter Stewart
is the principal investigator.

Chowdhry yesterday drew the
medical commission’s attention
to the relative safety of boxing
compared with several other
sports. There is no boxing
fatality in Olympic history or io
the amatenr world
championships.

There were 107 nations
competing in Seoul and the
AIBA believes the protection of
boxers, predominantly in the 17-
21 age groups, is protected by
these eight factors:

The compulsory use of ap¬
proved headgoards and
gnmshields; a compulsory four-
week rest after a severe bout and
a standing count of eight after a
knockdown; complete technical
records of every boxer with heart

and brain scans; effective dreg
control, with no positive cases in
Seoul; referee intervention to
protect weaker boxers; doctors
in attendance before, during and
after competitions^ heavier
gloves for higher weight cate¬
gories; and a doctor’s option to
halt a bout at any tune.

On November 1 Robert Voy,
the chief medical officer of the
US Olympic Committee, wrote
to Prince Alexandre de M erode,
chairman of the medical com¬
mission, to draw his attention to
misinformation circulating
about boxing and to the exten¬
sive provisions for safety which
were being taken, particularly
w ithin the US, where amateur
boxing remains a major sport.

Sharp in doubt

Graeme Sharp, Evenon's Scot¬
land forward, has a lorn groin
muscle and is set to miss the
televised League match on Sun¬
day. but Ian Rush is ready to
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Bookmakers under fire at Gimcrack dinner

Bv Michael Sed

Racing Correspon

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The mounting dissatisfaction
in rating against the book-
makers’ refusal to agree to the
28th Levy Scheme was farther
underlined in speeches at the
Gimcrack Dinner in York last
night, both by Anthony Budge,
owner of the winner of the
Gimcrack Stakes this year,
and by Lord Fairhaven, senior
steward of the Jockey Club.

Budge, the chairman of a
Nottinghamshire dvil en¬
gineering and construction
firm, and a race sponsor, in a
hard-hitting and well-re¬
searched speech, highlighted
the wide gap between the
enormous profit made by the
major bookmakers and the low
level of return allocated to the
industry from the nation’s
betting.

“The greater problem is
surely that when £10 million is
bet off-course each day, a
horse can still race for a first
prize of less than £1,000—and
this is when the whole
bookmaking industry is up in
anus over a total levy of £30
million. The rating division of

one single company made £62
million.”

On the other hand, as Budge
went on to point out, “the Tote
had a turnover of £146 million
and an operating surplus of
£7.1 milli on, of which no less
than £3.1 million was
ploughed back into racing.
Surely this is an example to
the bookmakers, who are
baulking at paying a levy of
OS per cent when the Tote is
already effectively paying ova*
2 JO per cent. Elsewhere in the
world it is 3 pw cent of
turnover. If the British levy
was set at 2 per cent, it would
make competition more equal
between tire Tote and the
bookmakers and transform
the prospects for the sport.”

The present dispute con¬
cerns £23 million. The Levy
Board wishes to see die levy
pegged at Its cu r ren t rate of
0.88 per cent; the bookmakers,
on the other hand, because of
increased tnrnover due to Sat¬
ellite television and a new
method of assessing their
tnrnover, wish to see it reduced
to 0.82 per cent.

The low level of prize-money
has been directly responsible
for competent trainers such as

John Winter, Ray Laing and
Nicky Vigors giving np their
livelihood. Discussing tins and
the knock-on effects of poor
prize-money on wages. Budge
went on: “Stable lads are the
stalwarts of the industry, but
yon cannot get the best from
any team if a si gnificant
number of the workforce are
low paid, and work long,
arduous and anti-social hours
and cannot afford to buy
decent accommodation. Even a
one-bedroom flat in Lamboara
costs over £60,000, and there¬
fore many stable lads are
required to live in accommoda¬
tion that would not be accept¬
able to oar construction
workers.”

Budge then poured scorn on
the bookmakers' constant
complaints about the poor rate
of retom on betting. *T noted
the comments of the public

rplarion <i ^M»«f

major bookmakers after the
Ala: Stewart speech. He said,
‘Why are the bookmakers
always blamed for this state of
affairs — we only make 10 or
12 per cent profit before tax.'
WdL I have news for him, the
average for the construction
industry is between three and

four per cent pre-tax, out of
which we all have to make the
Investments in craft and
management training and the
necessary capital expenditure
to secure oar fttfnre”

Badge also noted the weak¬
ness in the power structure of
rating, whereby control is split
between the Levy Board, the
Jockey Club ami individual
racecourses.

“The bookmakers’ views
have naturally become firmly
entrenched with the passage of
time. To an extent the same
comments may still be said
regarding the Jockey Club-1
say this, because, whilst the
administration of racing pro¬
tects its integrity. It simply has
no effective say or control in
the fntnre selling and
presentation of the sport to a
wider public.”

He commented: “Surely the
Jockey Club, instead of just
concerning themselves in the
administration of the sport,
could begin to look ranch
further outward and possibly
pro mote the sport by using
professional staff whose sal¬
aries would effectively be pud
by the levy. Cannot younger

Budge: attacked levy

people like the Edward Gilles¬
pies and Mark Kershaws of
this world play a vital role at
the centre of rating and
throughout racing, rather rtw"
just concentrating on particu¬
lar aspects.”

Badge also suggested that
tile Jockey Club should take a
leaf out of the Football
League’s book by ch arg ing a
copyright fee for the declared
fist of runners at race meet¬
ings. He also considered It
essential that the 40 per cent
share-holding in Satellite

Information Services, which
still remains to be allocated,
should fall into the right
hands.

“From an owner’s perspec¬
tive, the SIS franchise should
have beat operated by an
outside body to both safeguard
the integrity of the sport and
maximize the potential rev¬
enues for the good of the whole
i nd u st r y in mis age of instant
satellite communications.

“However, it is vital that the
40 per cent goes to truly
independent hands...Lord
NewaB called last week for the
Jockey Club to get together to
boy the r e m a i nin g 40 per emit
of SIS to influence what is
shown in betting shops and to
protect the industry's fntnre
income from on-comse betting.
I agree — why not?”

b his traditional “state of
the nation” speech. Lord Fair-
haven und erfilled

the Jockey Clnb's determ¬
ination to stand firmly behind
the Horserace Betting Levy
Board in its negotiations with
foe bookmakers, which are
now in deadlock and which
have been referred to the
Home Secretary for
arbitration.

“There is a real danger that
without a proper return from
(he betting industry's leviable
turnover, it mil be difficult to
sustain our present position,
let alone Invest in die fntnre.
The Jockey Club is therefore
preparing a submission on
racing's behalf in conjunction
with the Horseracing Advisory
Council which will shortly be
presented to the Home Office.

“So many advances have
been made in recent years that
the sport now prorides the
betting industry with a highly
marketable product Let no
one have any Illusions about
this — pay no attention to talk
of begging bowls, subsidies or
handouts — this is a commer¬
cial arrangement. Racing pro¬
duces a prod net; and the
betting industry buys it. I can
assure yon that our statement
to tiie Home Office will make
very dear what we believe a
proper price shoald be.”

For some time, the industry
has been calling for further
prize-money winning opportu¬
nities for owners, trainers and
all those involved in the sport,
particularly in the middle ami
lower tiers. “The stewards are
acutely aware of the frustra-

Smith forges the
link to create

UN STEWART

Oxford’s control

By David Hands
Rugby Correspondent

Oxford University........ 27

Cambridge University 7

If ever a match had "Made in
Australia” stamped all the
way through, it was the 107th
University match at Twick¬
enham yesterday.

Oxford recovered the Bow¬
ring Bowl in a contest which,
magnificently refereed, lived
up to every expectation and
was won by the side which
ultimately exerted greater con¬
trol of the ball and rubbed in
remorselessly their every scor¬
ing chance.

The greatest control before
a crowd of 52,000, was exer¬
cised by Smith, Oxford's
Australian stand-off half. He
scored two tries in the win by
two goals, three tries and a
dropped goal to a try and a
dropped goaL It was their
greatest margin of victory
since 1909 and the first time
for 22 years that the scoreline
has not included a penalty.

Cambridge found it impos¬
sible to cut off Smith’s link
with Egerton, his compatriot,
which proved so creative for

Oxford, whereas Oxford's de¬
fence seldom gave the power¬
ful Hall space in which to play.

In the closing stages, when
victory was assured, the Dark
Blues’ tackling r emained out¬
standing, even under the
sternest pressure when Wain-
wrigfat and Glasgow both went
dose.

Oxford seized the game
immediat ely after half -time,
when they led only 8-7 and
they had lost Willis, their
tight-head prop, with an in¬
jured ankle.

Ian Williams brought a
splendid tackle out of Buzza
and Vessey was stopped just
short Smith domed up a
messy lineout and sent Evans
dodging-to the line for the try
which, with Smith’s conver¬
sion, gave Oxford a vital
seven-point cushion.

Thereafter, whatever Cam¬
bridge tried they could not
escape. Their game is depen¬
dent upon the most delicate
touch in the bade division arid
yesterday the passes were ill-
timed and ill-directed.

They could scarcely com¬
plain about the sad with¬
drawal, in the morning, of
Macdonald, their 6ft 8in Scot¬

tish lock, with damaged ankle
ligaments, so well did his
colleagues play. The match
was 15 minutes old before
Wain wright won Cambridge's
first lineout ball, but they
ended in credit by 22-17.

They rucked well too, nota¬
bly in the first half when they
faced the wind, but Oxford's—
I nearly said Australia’s —
first-time tackling and cover
defence were impervious to
everything but Buzza’s feint
from a five-metre scrum
which gave Glasgow time and
space to cruise in for the try
which gave Cambridge the
lead for the second time,
Adrian Davies’s dropped goal
having opened the scoring.

In between. Smith scared
his first try. though much of
the credit belonged to Egerton.
He broke the tackles of Hall
and Graham Davies before
Smith drove his compact
frame beneath three ladders
and sltidded into the corner.

Before the interval. Smith’s
long switch pass gave Egerton
space to put up a high kick to
the line which he pursued, in
Australian Rules style, to leap
and force the ball down.

Dark Bine breakfoitmgh: Smith, the Oxford University stand-off; evades the attention of (wo Cambridge opponents yesterday

Vessey savours record
by turning the tables

Rupert Vessey, the Oxford
captain who made a record-
equalling fifth appearance in
the University match, cast bis
mind back to the 32-6 defeat
he suffered in his first game at
Twickenham.

He said: “I remember going
home ro my flat In Oxford and
feeling pretty desperate for the
next few days after that match.
It was nice to turn the tables
because (hat was the worst
possible beginning to my
career with Oxford.”

He said that Smith had
taken time to settle in the
team, but had come good when
it mattered. “Brian has the
ideal big-match temperament.
He reaily showed what he is
capable of today.”

Mark Hancock, the Cam¬
bridge captain, said his team
was not despondent at losing

an writing malrii

“We have achieved a lot tills,
term, and it was enjoyable to
play in such a fast game. We
made mistakes in try-scoring
positions, mistakes that have
not happened in similar situa¬
tions this term. That was oar
only disappointment”

Both captains paid tribute to
the contribution of the referee,
Clive Nor ling.

Clive Noiiing took bis time
awarding that try but his
judgement, notably in the
playing of the advantage law,
was exemplary. He had, of
course, two sides happy to
play rugby, as opposed to the
fflariing. snapping divisional
teams on display at the week¬
end at Gloucester.

Of those two sides, Oxford
drove home their every scor¬
ing opportunity as Cambridge
tired, in a match where the
pace was even more sustained
than usuaL

Vessey said: “Fra not just
saying this because the result
went our way. I thought be was
just fantastic. He was by far
the best referee I have had in
my live Varsity matches.”

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Evans popped over a
dropped goal and Cambridge
badly needed the encourage¬
ment of the only penalty
attempt at goal of die match,
by Smton (there were only
nine penalty awards of any
kind throughout, eight of
them to Cambridge). It curled
wide and when Cambridge
kicked poorly out of defence,
Smith pursued his own kick
ahead and was rewarded with
the touchdown.

Ian Williams, one of three
of the diverse family of Wil¬
liams to get on to the field,
always a menace, left the field
concussed for Cook to earn his
Blue and, within three min¬
utes, the final try. Cambridge
lost lineout possession and
Smith, purposeful as ever,
turned their error into Oxford
profit.

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Loss of identity cards not
automatic after ejection

By John Good body

QPRaim
for deal
over Smith

The Government has ac¬
cepted that football supporters
who have been ejected from
grounds will not automatically
lose their identity cards when
the controversial membership
scheme is introduced next

season.

Instead, they will have the
right of appeal according to
the laws of natural justice.

Colin Moynihan, the Min¬
ister for Sport, also told a
meeting with representatives
of the supporters in London
yesterday that the Govern¬
ment wants them to have
“smart” cards, which will be
particularly receptive to high
technology, linked to a central
computer. Each is likely to
cost £9 for three seasons.

The Government, which is
now expected to introduce
after Christmas the Bill forc¬
ing football supporters to
carry identity cards, is still
considering details of the
scheme outlined in a report of
the Minister for Sport’s work¬
ing party and published last
month. A small group of
Conservative MPs will help
the minister in promoting the
Bill which will transform foot¬

ball in England and is ex¬
pected to lead to a drop in
attendances at least in the
early stages.

Yesterday’s meeting at¬
tended by Moynihan, three
backbench Tory MPs, includ¬
ing David Evans, the chair¬
man of Luton, and
representatives of the Football
Supporters’ Association (FSA)
ana the National Federation
of Football Supporters’ Cubs,
lasted only just over an hour.

But it was long enough for
the Minister to express the
government's absolute
determination not to be weak¬
ened on introducing the
scheme. Moynihan said:
“Football authorities and
supporters will eventualy re¬
alise that the scheme is in the
interests of the game and will
in no way deter people from
going to matches.

“The scheme will not only
separate the hooligans from
the true supporters but David
Evans believes that it could
well get us back into Europe.”

Craig Brewin, the secretary
of the Football Supporters’
Association, said afterwards:
“The Minister is 100 per cent

in favour of the scheme. We
are very concerned about the
financial aspects, particularly
as some clubs estimate there
will be a 25 per cent drop in
attendances and also that at
busy games there is expected
to be congestion at the en¬
trances. Even the Police
Federation has criticised it.”

Brewin said the Association
would launch a massive cam¬
paign including distributing
leaflets at grounds against the
scheme. “When the Bill is
produced then the campaign
will really take off.”

Alistair Burt, MP for Bury
North, who is one of the small
group of Tory MPS who will
help Moynihan, said: “There
are a number of options to be
considered. Many details have
yet to be completed before the
Bill is introduced.”

Officials of the FSA are
heartened by the massive
support they have had from
fans, ail of whom they claim
are opposed to the introduc¬
tion of the scheme A recent
meeting in Liverpool attracted
250 people, none of whom
wanted it to be introduced.

Queen's Park Rangers are
Willing to accept the B razilian
player, Mirandinha, if New¬
castle are unwilling to pay
£250,000 in compensation for
signing Jim Smith as their
manager.

The chairman, Richard
Thompson, who yesterday re¬
jected Newcastle’s first offer of
£150,000, confirmed that he
would like to see the St James’
Park forward move to Loftus
Road.

He is prepared to offer
Newcastle a cash inducement.
“It would be interesting if they
were prepared to discuss it,
and we mignt be prepared to
pay them, say, £50,000 if they
valued Mirandinha at
£300,000,” Thompson said.

Thompson will have further
talks with the Newcastle chair¬
man, Cordon McKeag, to
discuss payment for Smith's
move with 30 months of his
Rangers contract still to run.

Meanwhile, the QPR coach,
Peter Shreeve, has been put in
temporary charge of the team.
• Bobby Saxton, the former
Blackburn and York manager,
is poised to become the No. 2
to Smith.

Wilander to
lead Swedes
in Davis Cup

Stockholm (Reuter) — Mats
Wilander, who was officially
named as the world champion
yesterday, and Stefan Ed berg,
the Wimbledon champion,
will head Sweden for then-
sixth consecutive Davis Cup
final against West Germany
from December 16 to 18.

Hans Olsson, the non-play¬
ing captain, said he had faced
a difficult choice before decid¬
ing to include Anders Jairyd
and Kent Carisson, the day-
court specialist “My real
headache was whether to
select Janyd or Mikael
Pemfors," Olsson said. The
final will be indoors on day in
Gothenburg.

Wilander has already sup¬
plied some off-court flavour.
Married to a South African, he
has threatened to boycott the
final if Swedish television fails
to provide domestic coverage.
There are anti-apartheid pres¬
sures on Becker after -his
refusal to apologize and have
his name taken from a United
Nations blacklist

SPORT IN BRIEF

Alderman

recalled

Perth (AP)—Terry Alderman,
the Australian cricketer who
was banned from first-class
cricket for two years for
playing in South Africa, has
been recalled for the third Test
match against West Indies,
which starts in Melbourne on
Christmas Eve.

AUSTRALIAN SQUADc A ft Border (capt).
<3 R Marsh, T M AUenrnn. D C Boon. A I G
Dodarnute, IA Hoaly, M (3 Hughes, 0 M
Jones. C J McDermott. P L Taytor, M E
Waugh, 8 R Waugh, G M Wood.

Colour change

The Cricketers' Association —
the players' union — will back
plans to introduce white balls,
black, sight-screens and col¬
oured dotting in a domestic
limited-overs competition
when the matter is discussed
at the Test and County Cricket
Board meeting this week.

Light relief

Alderman: back in favour

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Match report, page 38 llielaSfieg

Final frontier

The finalists for the two-man
British team in the 1989
Camel Trophy off-road endur¬
ance test through foe Amazon
Basin have been named after
four days of strenuous driving
on Hawley Common in
Surrey. They are Du nc a n
Mansfield, Bob Ives, Simon
Day and David Wafldcy. The
final selection trial will take
place on the Canary Islands in

February. . < _

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Toshihiko Seko, of Japan,
who won the 1986 London
marathon, will retire after
running foe last leg for foe
Japanese team in an inter¬
national road relay race on
December IS.

Newcastle United have loaned
Stockton, of the Northern
League, some floodlighting
bulbs so that their FA Trophy
replay against Whitby Town
can go ahead tonight.

Khehar award

Curry defends

Donald Curry, of the United
States, will defend his World
Boxing Council hght-middle-
wdghi title against Rene
Jacquot, of France, in Gre- r
noble on February ) I. j

Sutinder Khehar, who made
60 appearances for the Eng¬
land hockey team between
1974 and 1982, has been
awarded the Poundstretcher
National League player-of-
the-momh award for Novem¬
ber. Khehar, aged 36, came
oul of retirement to inspire the
revival of Slough, who are
now sixth in foe league.

END COLUMN

Ipswich
import
a Soviet

player

By Louise Taylor

B a lta c h a has wan 41 inter-
natkmal caps and has been
instrumental in helping Dy¬
namo Kiev win the Soviet
championship four times dar¬
ing his 10 yean with the dub.

The only obstacle to But
facha appearing for Ipswich
now is that the dub most still
secure a work permit. This is
expected to be a formality as
they enjoy the support of
Michael Irvine, a local MP. .

Although Baltacha's pay
wili be restricted, the East
Anglian dub plan to boost his
income with perks, induding a
free house and car. It is not yet
dear whether he will be
accompanied by his wife and
daughter or when he will
arrive.

Deal for Baltacha
may be extended

John Duncan, the Ipswich
manager who negotiated the
deal in Moscow this week, is
confident that the effort and
expense involved in p urs ui ng
Baltacha will prove worth-’
while. “Altough be speaks
only a little German besides
Russian, he rtitnh he can
quickly pick np enough Eng¬
lish to see him through,”
Duncan said yesterday.

If events on and off the field
progress well, it is expected
that the Soviet Sports Com¬
mittee wflj grant an extension
to Baltadba's contract which
expires at the end of the
season. By then Ipswich
supporters will hope he will
have plugged a frail defence
which only fast week was
Pierced six times by Aston
Villa in a Littlewoods Cup tie.

Baltacha could even be
joined by another former Dy-
“®o Kiev player at Portman
Road. Vladimir Bessonov, a
long-standing Soviet inter¬
national defender, is akn talk-
iug to Duncan about the
possibility of a move.

Ipswich were among the
first dubs to import players,
over a decade ago when they
Signed Arnold Mnhren and
Frans Thfissen from the
Netherlands, while Romeo
Zondervan, another Dutch
representative, upholds the
tradition. He welcomed Bal-
tacha s impending arrival yes¬
terday. “It is great news for
Ipswich. We need a central
defender and I know that the
fflanager went out to the
European Championship and
was impressed with the Rus¬
sians,” Zondervan said. “He
wdl have to adapt to a different
football system in England,
but when he settles he may
teach us something.”

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horses whose successes rs
ceric little financial rccog.
ration. As a result, we a*
aiming far prize-money in the
lower tier to be increased.»
that a horse which wins time
races of any sort - flat,
steeplechase or hurdle
should cover its training feet
and associated costs. In order
that this should not put foe
whole framework oat offal,
mice, extra funds will the
bare to be found far the ariddfc
and upper tiers. The whole
package will require a v«y
substantial sum of money."

Lord Fair haven revealed
that “subject to foe avajhbg-
Hy of new money, the fixture,
list in 1990 wlU he increased
by up to 30 fixtures (Flat and
jump) and by a further 30 fa

1991. It is possible that more
may still be introduced la

1992. The details will be
issued in due coorae, but I
believe these new opportu¬
nities. spread throughout the
country, will be of tamense
benefit to both miners and tbe
public. They also represent a
major step forward in the
technical administration of
racing.”

Sergei Baltacha yesterday be¬
came the first Soviet footfatikf
to join an English dub.
Baltacha, aged 30, a defender
with Dynamo Kiev, signed a
six-mouth contract with Ips¬
wich Town of the second
division.

The transfer fee is believed
to be £150.000, payable to foe
Soviet Sports Committee, but
Baltacha will not be able to
enjoy all foe sweet Ufe of
Suffolk. Under Soviet law, he
will be allowed to earn a
maximum of £200 a month —
perhaps £1,000 less than foe
average salary at Partisan
Road.

Leading Soviet sportsmen
were prevented from exploit¬
ing their talent in foe West
until Zavarov was allowed to
join Jnventns after foe Euro¬
pean championship in West
Germany in June. He was
followed by Dassayev joining
Seville and Khfdyatulin going
to Toulouse.

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